Benjamin Coddington
2022-Nov-21 14:34 UTC
[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
On 21 Nov 2022, at 8:56, David Howells wrote:> Benjamin Coddington <bcodding at redhat.com> wrote: > >> Since moving to memalloc_nofs_save/restore, SUNRPC has stopped setting the >> GFP_NOIO flag on sk_allocation which the networking system uses to decide >> when it is safe to use current->task_frag. > > Um, what's task_frag?Its a per-task page_frag used to coalesce small writes for networking -- see: 5640f7685831 net: use a per task frag allocator Ben
Shuah Khan
2022-Nov-21 21:40 UTC
[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
On 11/21/22 07:34, Benjamin Coddington wrote:> On 21 Nov 2022, at 8:56, David Howells wrote: > >> Benjamin Coddington <bcodding at redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> Since moving to memalloc_nofs_save/restore, SUNRPC has stopped setting the >>> GFP_NOIO flag on sk_allocation which the networking system uses to decide >>> when it is safe to use current->task_frag. >> >> Um, what's task_frag? > > Its a per-task page_frag used to coalesce small writes for networking -- see: > > 5640f7685831 net: use a per task frag allocator > > Ben > >I am not seeing this in the mainline. Where can find this commit? thanks, -- Shuah