Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:56:33 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ? |
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In linux-kernel, you wrote: > Peter Zaitsev wrote: > > > > That's why I thought this problem is related to raid1 swapping I'm > > using. > > Well there is the potential problem that RAID1 has that it can't avoid allocating > memory in some occasions, for the 2nd bufferhead. ATARAID raid0 has the same problem for > now, and there is no real solution to this. You can pre-allocate a bunch of bufferheads, > but under high load you will run out of those, no matter how many you pre-allocate.
Arjan, why doesn't it sleep instead (GFP_KERNEL)?
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