[PATCH v2 1/4] net: introduce helper sendpages_ok()

Ofir Gal ofir.gal at volumez.com
Thu Jun 6 06:18:29 PDT 2024


On 06/06/2024 16:08, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 03:57:25PM +0300, Ofir Gal wrote:
>> The slab pages aren't allocated by the md-bitmap, they are pages that
>> happens to be after the allocated pages. I'm applying a patch to the md
>> subsystem asap.
> Similar cases could happen by other means as well.  E.g. if you write
> to the last blocks in an XFS allocation group while also writing something
> to superblock copy at the beginnig of the next one and the two writes get
> merged.  Probably not easy to reproduce but entirely possible.  Just as
> as lot of other scenarious could happen due to merges.
I agree. Do we want to proceed with my patch or would we prefer a more
efficient solution?




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