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Bug#884938: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc



Control: tag -1 upstream

On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 11:30 -0500, Jason Gill wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.51-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Writing a large number of files to an XFS system with a larger
> directory block size causes slow performance and kernel log errors re:
> memory allocation deadlocks.
[...]

This problem appears to be known upstream.  As it still hasn't been
fixed, I wouldn't expect it to be fixed any time soon.  You'll probably
have to use a smaller directory block size.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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