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When using large directory blocks, we regularly see memory allocations of >64k being made for the shadow log vector buffer. When we are under memory pressure, kmalloc() may not be able to find contiguous memory chunks large enough to satisfy these allocations easily, and if memory is fragmented we can potentially stall here. TO avoid this problem, switch the log vector buffer allocation to use kmem_alloc_large(). This will allow failed allocations to fall back to vmalloc and so remove the dependency on large contiguous regions of memory being available. This should prevent slowdowns and potential stalls when memory is low and/or fragmented. Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.