Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 Ã 13:57 +0200, Eric Dumazet a Ãcrit :
> We had a similar memory problem in fib_trie in the past : We force a
> synchronize_rcu() every XXX Mbytes allocated to make sure we dont have
> too much ram waiting to be freed in rcu queues.
This was done in commit c3059477fce2d956
(ipv4: Use synchronize_rcu() during trie_rebalance())
It was possible in fib_trie because we hold RTNL lock, so managing
a counter was free.
In fs case, we might use a percpu_counter if we really want to limit the
amount of space.
Now, I am not even sure we should care that much and could just forget
about this high order pages use.
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 0be3447..7ba26fe 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -41,12 +41,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fdtable_defer,
fdtable_defer_list);
static inline void *alloc_fdmem(unsigned int size)
{
- void *data;
-
- data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
- if (data != NULL)
- return data;
-
return vmalloc(size);
}
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