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)? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
