[patch 2/2] xfs: use scalable vmap API

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Jan 25 15:34:03 CST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:37:46PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:33:09PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Any easy way to get them?  Sorry, not uptodate on your new vmalloc
> > > implementation anymore.
> > 
> > Let me try writing a few (tested) patches here first that I can send you.
> 
> Well is it easy to reproduce the vmap failure? Here is a better tested
> patch if you can try it. It fixes a couple of bugs and does some purging
> of fragmented blocks.

So far I've not run out of vmalloc space yet with quite a few xfstests
iterations and not encountered any other problems either.

Thanks for looking into this!




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