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Re: Failing XFS memory allocation

To: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Failing XFS memory allocation
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 02:33:45 -0700
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi Nikolay,

can you give the patch below a spin?  While it doesn't solve the root
cause it makes many typical uses of kmem_realloc behave less badly,
so it should help with at least some of the less dramatic cases of very
fragmented files:

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