From: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Organization: Clientec, Inc.
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:46:48 -0600
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:26, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's not a bad data point, it just confirms that setting ->ordered_flush
> to 0 in the SATA drivers will fix the leak. So really, it's as expected.
> So far apparently nobody tried it, suggested it twice.

In case you still wanted the data point, I just set ordered_flush to 0 on my 
ata_piix and the slab leak disappeared.

Thanks,
Chase
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