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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:13:03AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote: > >> > > +md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch > > > MD update.> > > > Any chance to see this merged? I think this one is pending for quite a while. I looked at this in detail last month, hoping to get it out of the way, but unfortunately found that, in dm-crypt: Instead of the stack growing, we'll be allocating successive bios out of the *same* mempool and, without the recursion, we'll have lost the possibility of a later allocation waiting for an earlier one to be released after its endio. In other words, I think part of dm-crypt needs re-writing to avoid problems under memory pressure after this patch is applied. And on the face of it, __clone_and_map() may suffer from similar problems should a bio need to be split into several pieces. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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