linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-kcopyd: Correctly free requests

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:37:47 +0100
From:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
To:	dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-kcopyd: Correctly free requests

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:15:42PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> kcopyd only frees the requests if the master job information is set up
> correctly, but it was not in the recently added path. This leads to many
> unfreed slabs during snapshot usage.
 
Referring to commit c6ea41fbbe08f270a8edef99dc369faf809d1bd6
  dm kcopyd: preallocate sub jobs to avoid deadlock
which added the master_job field.

Alasdair

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