[Drbd-dev] [patch resend 1/3] block: allocate request memory local to request queue

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Wed Mar 25 03:01:21 CET 2015


On 03/24/2015 05:21 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> blk_init_rl() allocates a mempool using mempool_create_node() with node
> local memory.  This only allocates the mempool and element list locally
> to the requeue queue node.
>
> What we really want to do is allocate the request itself local to the
> queue.  To do this, we need our own alloc and free functions that will
> allocate from request_cachep and pass the request queue node in to prefer
> node local memory.

Applied to for-4.1/core, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe



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