Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:06:11PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:59 +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ...
> > I wonder if this change will end up ruining things for the lunatic
> > fringe issuing these kinds of IOs?  Maybe the get_block call could
> > take a block count rather than a byte count?  
> 
> Yes. I thought about it too.. I wanted to pass "block count" instead
> of "byte count". Right now it does ..
> 
> 	bh->b_size = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
> 	call get_block();
> 
> First thing get_block() does is
> 	blocks = bh->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits;
> 
> All, the unnecessary shifting around for nothing :(

Yeah, pretty silly really, but theres not much choice if the
goal is to keep this simple.  Oh well.

> But, I ended up doing "byte count" just to avoid confusion of
> asking in "blocks" getting back in "bytes".

Understood.

> I have no problem making b_size as "size_t" to handle 64-bit.
> But again, if we are fiddling with buffer_head - may be its time
> to look at alternative to "buffer_head" with the information exactly 
> we need for getblock() ?

That is a much bigger change - I'm not in a position to make the
call on whether thats in everyones best interests.  However, I do
want to make sure we don't regress anything, so I guess the u32
to size_t switch probably should be made to resolve this issue.

Thanks again for following up on this.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan