nvme: provide fallback for discard alloc failure
When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the discard page allocation in nvme. If we fail allocating the special page, we return busy, and it'll get retried. But since ordering is honored for dispatch requests, we can keep retrying this same IO and failing. Behind that IO could be requests that want to free memory, but they never get the chance. Allocate a fixed discard page per controller for a safe fallback, and use that if the initial allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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