Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:59:42 +0100 | From | christoph <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:58:30AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Thanks. Only current issue Nathan raised is, he wants to see > b_size change to u64 (instead of u32) to support really-huge-IO > requests. Does this sound reasonable to you ?
I know that we didn't want to increase b_size at some point because of concerns about the number of objects fitting into a page in the slab allocator. If the same number of bigger heads fit into the same page I see no problems with the increase. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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