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Jeff Layton authored
When doing some testing recently, I hit some page allocation failures
on mount, when creating the wb_pagevec_pool for the mount. That
requires 128k (32 contiguous pages), and after thrashing the memory
during an xfstests run, sometimes that would fail.

128k for each mount seems like a lot to hold in reserve for a rainy
day, so let's change this to a global mempool that gets allocated
when the module is plugged in.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIlya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
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