Re: bcache: order 7 allocation

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Mon Jun 24 2013 - 16:05:26 EST


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 01:47:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to play with bcache, but first surprise was oom in syslog:
>
> Order 7 alocation is pretty big, no?

That's a btree node - and after it allocates the reserve at startup,
allocation failures don't matter.

I would just flip on CONFIG_COMPACTION - CONFIG_BCACHE used to select
that but someone complained (probably I just shouldn't have listened).
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