[PATCH] nvmet-tcp: get rid of a high-order allocation

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Tue Dec 24 03:57:23 PST 2024




On 19/12/2024 16:40, Jonas Konrad wrote:
> Hi Sagi and Hannes,
>
> Can you move this patch forward? (from August, if you have to check 
> the archive)
>
> 5572a55a6f830ee3f3a994b6b962a5c327d28cb3 fixed the kernel crash 
> resulting from the failed allocation, but the allocation still fails 
> regularly in my setup. `echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` 
> works fine as a workaround to free memory to make the allocation work, 
> but it's inconvenient that I have to do this daily.
>
> Thanks,
> - Jonas
>

We need a review for it first (maybe from Hannes).



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