Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:03:22PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> [ Christoph, is this failure expected?  I think you/Steve made
> some changes there to use __GFP_NOFAIL and assume it wont fail?
> (in 2.4 we do memory allocations differently to better handle
> failures, but that code was removed...) ]

It looks like the slab allocator doesn't like __GFP_NOFAIL, we'll
probably have to revert the XFS memory allocation wrappers to the
2.4 versions.

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