On 9/23/19 7:51 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 07:17:10PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>> So if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please express it (preferably >>> in a formal way such as Acked-by), otherwise it seems the patch will be >>> dropped (due to a private NACK, apparently). > > Oh, I didn't realize ^^^^^^^^^^^^ that *some* of us are allowed the > privilege of gutting a patch via private NAK without any of that open > development discussion incovenience. <grumble> > > As far as XFS is concerned I merged Dave's series that checks the > alignment of io memory allocations and falls back to vmalloc if the > alignment won't work, because I got tired of scrolling past the endless > discussion and bug reports and inaction spanning months. I think it's a big fail of kmalloc API that you have to do that, and especially with vmalloc, which has the overhead of setting up page tables, and it's a waste for allocation requests smaller than page size. I wish we could have nice things.
