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

Nick Piggin npiggin at suse.de
Wed Jan 27 02:38:19 CST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 04:34:03PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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!

OK thanks for testing. I'll send it upstream if you haven't had any
problems so far.




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