Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:29:39 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > >> But that's not my place to say, and I'm actually not arguing that high >> order pagecache does not have uses (especially as a practical, >> shorter-term solution which is unintrusive to filesystems). >> >> So no, I don't think I'm really going against the basics of what we agreed >> in Cambridge. But it sounds like it's still being billed as first-order >> support right off the bat here. > > Well its seems that we have different interpretations of what was agreed > on. My understanding was that the large blocksize patchset was okay > provided that I supply an acceptable mmap implementation and put a > warning in.
I think all we agreed on was that both patches needed significant work and would need to be judged after they were completed ;-)
There was talk of putting Christoph's approach in more-or-less as-is as a very specialized and limited application ... but I don't think we concluded anything for the more general and long-term case apart from "this is hard" ;-)
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