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

From: christoph
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 11:57:37 EST


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.
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