Re: [PATCH] sd: use mempool for discard special page

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Jens,

> When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the
> discard page allocation in sd. If we fail allocating the special page,
> we return busy, and it'll get retried. But since ordering is honored
> for dispatch requests, we can keep retrying this same IO and
> failing. Behind that IO could be requests that want to free memory,
> but they never get the chance. This means you get repeated spews of
> traces like this:

Looks good. Applied to 4.20/scsi-fixes, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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