Subject: Re: [bug?] bio: add experimental support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio

From: Jens Axboe <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:32:28 +0100

On Wed, Dec 10 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:12:38 +0100
> Jens Axboe <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > > experimental??
> > 
> > Experimental in the sense that it's the first version, not the concept.
> > It's held up well for me, but just yesterday I received the first bug
> > report on a ppc platform and now you have this on ia64.
> 
> 
> Well there's another bug report up-list.  "next-20081209: pdflush: page
> allocation failure (xfs)".
> 
> The clearing of (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO) will call the page allocator in the
> weakest possible mode and will of course spew page allocations warnings
> with great frequency.  It should at least add in __GFP_NOWARN.

OK, that must be for the change titled

"bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache"

and yes, that does look like it wants a bit more gfp loving, probably
the same as mempool_alloc() would use anyway. I'll get that fixed.

-- 
Jens Axboe