[PATCH] xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Fri Mar 11 04:16:42 CST 2011
> + if (((unsigned long)(bp->b_addr + bp->b_buffer_length - 1) &
> + PAGE_MASK) !=
> + ((unsigned long)bp->b_addr & PAGE_MASK)) {
> + /* b_addr spans two pages - use alloc_page instead */
> + kmem_free(bp->b_addr);
> + bp->b_addr = NULL;
> + goto use_alloc_page;
> + }
Did you manage to hit this case? If it happens with any frequency under
real workloads we really need to find a wayto avoid the allocation to
start with.
Otherwise looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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