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    [PATCH] slab: use order 0 for vfs caches · 1b2569fb
    Andrew Morton authored
    We have interesting deadlocks when slab decides to use order-1 allocations for
    ext3_inode_cache.  This is because ext3_alloc_inode() needs to perform a
    GFP_NOFS 1-order allocation.
    
    Sometimes the 1-order allocation needs to free a huge number of pages (tens of
    megabytes) before a 1-order grouping becomes available.  But the GFP_NOFS
    allocator cannot free dcache (and hence icache) due to the deadlock problems
    identified in shrink_dcache_memory().
    
    So change slab so that it will force 0-order allocations for shrinkable VFS
    objects.  We can handle those OK.
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