Re: [PATCH 2/6] vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails

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On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 17:14 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On 32 bit systems, vmalloc space is limited and XFS can chew through
> it quickly as the vmalloc space is lazily freed. This can result in
> failure to map buffers, even when there is apparently large amounts
> of vmalloc space available. Hence, if we fail to map a buffer, purge
> the aliases that have not yet been freed to hopefuly free up enough
> vmalloc space to allow a retry to succeed.

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

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