| To: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 04/10] xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_getbmap |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:28:03 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <1331095828-28742-5-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:50:22PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > xfs_getbmap uses for a large buffer for extents, which is kmalloc'd. > This can fail after the system has been running for some time as it > is a high order allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it > doesn't require contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail on > files with large extent lists. Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> |
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