xen-blkfront: pre-allocate pages for requests
This prevents us from having to call alloc_page while we are preparing the request. Since blkfront was calling alloc_page with a spinlock held we used GFP_ATOMIC, which can fail if we are requesting a lot of pages since it is using the emergency memory pools. Allocating all the pages at init prevents us from having to call alloc_page, thus preventing possible failures. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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