I see that NFS4_PNFS_MAX_STRIPE_CNT is 4096 but when give the client a cnt that is bigger than 1024 it fails, is that the limitation of kcalloc() ? 366341.304362] <-- _nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo status=0 [366341.304364] filelayout_get_device_info getdevice info returns 0 [366341.304368] decode_device stripe count 1512 [366341.304370] decode_device ERROR: returning NULL [366341.304372] NFS: decode_and_add_device: Could not decode or add device [366341.304428] <-- filelayout_get_device_info dsaddr (null) [366341.304430] --> filelayout_check_layout returns -22 [366341.304433] pnfs_layout_process: Could not allocate layout: error -12 decode_device() ... dprintk("%s stripe count %d\n", __func__, cnt); if (cnt > NFS4_PNFS_MAX_STRIPE_CNT) { printk(KERN_WARNING "NFS: %s: stripe count %d greater than " "supported maximum %d\n", __func__, cnt, NFS4_PNFS_MAX_STRIPE_CNT); goto out_err_free_scratch; } /* read stripe indices */ stripe_indices = kcalloc(cnt, sizeof(u8), gfp_flags); if (!stripe_indices) goto out_err_free_scratch; Thanks, Marc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html