GFP_NOFS is not enough, since swap traffic is IO, hence fall back to GFP_NOIO. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/write.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/nfs/write.c +++ linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_wdata_cach struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commit_alloc(void) { - struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount) { - struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_all if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array)) p->pagevec = p->page_array; else { - p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS); + p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOIO); if (!p->pagevec) { kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p); p = NULL; Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/pagelist.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c +++ linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/pagelist.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static inline struct nfs_page * nfs_page_alloc(void) { struct nfs_page *p; - p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html