The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

Posted Dec 23, 2014 23:22 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule by flussence
Parent article: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

> This isn't the first time I've seen memory management problems and XFS mentioned in the same article. Is that just a side effect of more eyes on the code compared to other FSes, or is there something more to it?

I'd guess it's a side effect of XFS's focus on performance and code quality. As a high-performance filesystem, it puts more stress on the VM subsystem. And as for code quality, there's a reason why the filesystem testing tool every filesystem uses is called "xfstests".