Re: [OOPS]: Linux-2.5.1-pre5

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 13:43:19 EST

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On Tue, Dec 04 2001, David C. Hansen wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> >This should fix it.
>
> So, what was the actual problem?

bio_alloc() not waiting on the reserved pool for free entries, even
though __GFP_WAIT was set. No need for __GFP_IO in that case too.

There were two hunks with actual code changes in there, did you read the
patch at all? :-)

-- Jens Axboe

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