On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 13:48 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2007 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *
> >
> > alloc_transaction:
> > if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
> > - new_transaction = kmalloc(sizeof(*
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 19:28 +, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:26 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> >
> > > Here is the patch to clean up __GFP_NOFAIL flag in jbd/jbd2. In all
> > > cases except one handles memory allocatio
On Sep 19, 2007 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *
>
> alloc_transaction:
> if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
> - new_transaction = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> -
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:26 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
>
> > Here is the patch to clean up __GFP_NOFAIL flag in jbd/jbd2. In all
> > cases except one handles memory allocation failure so I get rid of those
> > GFP_NOFAIL flags.
> >
> > Als
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Here is the patch to clean up __GFP_NOFAIL flag in jbd/jbd2. In all
> cases except one handles memory allocation failure so I get rid of those
> GFP_NOFAIL flags.
>
> Also, shouldn't we use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOFS flag for kmalloc
>
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:00:01 -0700 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > JBD: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
> >
> > JBD allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However
> > JBD should not
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:00:01 -0700 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JBD: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
>
> JBD allocate memory for committed_data and frozen_data from slab. However
> JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer. Use page allocator
> page
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 13:04 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 09:35 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > > Here is the incremental small cleanup patch.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 09:35 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > Here is the incremental small cleanup patch.
> > >
> > > Remove kamlloc usages in jbd/jbd2 and consistently
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > Here is the incremental small cleanup patch.
> >
> > Remove kamlloc usages in jbd/jbd2 and consistently use
> > jbd_kmalloc/jbd2_malloc.
>
> Shouldn't we kill jbd_kmal
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:57:31PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Here is the incremental small cleanup patch.
>
> Remove kamlloc usages in jbd/jbd2 and consistently use
> jbd_kmalloc/jbd2_malloc.
Shouldn't we kill jbd_kmalloc instead?
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On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:01 -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:29 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:53 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > jbd/jbd2: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
> > >
> > > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:29 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:53 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > jbd/jbd2: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
> >
> > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer.
>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:29:51PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> The problem with this patch, as Andreas Dilger pointed today in ext4
> interlock call, for 1k,2k block size ext2/3/4, get_free_pages() waste
> 1/3-1/2 page space.
>
> What was the originally intention to set up slabs for committed_da
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:53 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> jbd/jbd2: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
>
> From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer.
> Use page allocator pages instead. This will also prepare
> JBD for
Thanks Mingming.
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jbd/jbd2: Replace slab allocations with page cache allocations
From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JBD should not pass slab pages down to the block layer.
Use page allocator pages instead. This will also prepare
JBD for the large blocksize patchset.
Tested on 2.6.23-rc6 with fsx runs fin
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