On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 10:06:10PM +0800, juncheng bai wrote: > Hi, All > > As far as I know, the patch b3f03bac8132207a20286d5602eda64500c19724 > solves one case which big directory size. > > I am not very familiar with xfs, but I think why can't we use vmalloc > when kmalloc fails?
Because vmalloc space is greatly limited on 32 bit machines and hence we can't just use vmalloc blindly in these situations. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
