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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2018-03-06 17:03:28 -0800
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2018-03-11 20:27:55 -0700
commitcb0a8d23024e7bd234dea4d0fc5c4902a8dda766 (patch)
tree350326308ff764800517d26319de97f6814a6e7c /fs/xfs/kmem.c
parent0c8efd610b58cb23cefdfa12015799079aef94ae (diff)
downloadlinux-cb0a8d23024e7bd234dea4d0fc5c4902a8dda766.tar.bz2
xfs: fall back to vmalloc when allocation log vector buffers
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/kmem.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/kmem.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 393b6849aeb3..7bace03dc9dc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
}
void *
-kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
+kmem_alloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
{
unsigned nofs_flag = 0;
void *ptr;
gfp_t lflags;
- ptr = kmem_zalloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
+ ptr = kmem_alloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
if (ptr)
return ptr;
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
- ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (flags & KM_NOFS)
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);