Re: [RFC][PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabs

Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:12:58 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 16:08 -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is the fix to "bh: Ensure bh fits within a page" problem
>> caused by JBD.
>>
>> BTW, I realized that this problem can happen only with 1k, 2k
>> filesystems - as 4k, 8k allocations disable slab debug 
>> automatically. But for completeness, I created slabs for those
>> also.
>>     
>
> With a larger base page size, you could run into the same problems for
> 4K and 8K allocations, so it's a good thing to do them all.
>
>   
Yes, with bigger base page size - this can happen for 4k, 8k also.

And also, I am re-doing the patch to address Andrew's comments - I will 
send out latest
in few hours (currently testing).

Thanks,
Badari



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