From: christoph <hch@lst.de>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: christoph <hch@lst.de>,
mcao@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
vs@namesys.com, zam@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:59:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222165942.GA25167@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 21:21 [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] pass b_size to ->get_block() Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 3:29 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-02-23 22:18 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] remove ->get_blocks() support Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-20 21:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Nathan Scott
2006-02-20 23:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-20 23:16 ` Nathan Scott
2006-02-21 2:41 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-21 16:03 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-21 21:39 ` Nathan Scott
2006-02-22 15:12 ` christoph
2006-02-22 16:58 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-22 16:59 ` christoph [this message]
2006-02-23 1:40 ` Nathan Scott
2006-02-23 1:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-23 16:28 ` [PATCH] change b_size to size_t Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 16:32 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 17:20 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 17:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 17:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 18:46 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 17:40 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-23 16:40 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-02-22 17:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Peter Staubach
2006-02-22 18:37 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-02-22 19:00 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-24 17:19 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-06 10:03 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-03-06 22:39 ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-07 9:00 ` Badari Pulavarty
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060222165942.GA25167@lst.de \
--to=hch@lst.de \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mcao@us.ibm.com \
--cc=pbadari@us.ibm.com \
--cc=vs@namesys.com \
--cc=zam@namesys.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).