On Wed, Dec 10 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:12:38 +0100 > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
