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Re: [Xen-devel] LVM Snapshot Troubles

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] LVM Snapshot Troubles
From: Michael Vrable <mvrable@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:52:04 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:06:59PM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> It might be worth adding "| __GFP_REPEAT" to the alloc_page in 
> drivers/md/kcopyd.c

I think that __GFP_REPEAT is a no-op for single-page allocations, as in
this case (though I haven't tried it).  __GFP_NOFAIL might work, but
that sounds like a cure worse than the disease.

--Michael Vrable


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