linux-kernel - [GFS2] Fix memory allocation in glock.c [9/9]

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Date:	Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:34:54 +0000
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: [GFS2] Fix memory allocation in glock.c [9/9]

>>From 70411bdbedb9a2726cacd5c36879b78037153782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:17:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix memory allocation in glock.c

Change from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS as this was causing a
slow down when trying to push inodes from cache.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/glock.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index 78fe0fa..e94e7c9 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ restart:
 	} else {
 		spin_unlock(&gl->gl_spin);
 
-		new_gh = gfs2_holder_get(gl, state, LM_FLAG_TRY, GFP_KERNEL);
+		new_gh = gfs2_holder_get(gl, state, LM_FLAG_TRY, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!new_gh)
 			return;
 		set_bit(HIF_DEMOTE, &new_gh->gh_iflags);
-- 
1.4.1



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