Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
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On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:53, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Maybe lazy allocation.  vmalloc() it with the first write(), which
> should be never in production use.  So the extra overhead doesn't
> really matter.

Seems reasonable.

> Do you mind if I submit such a patch?

For the CVS code, which is what's in 2.5, please do. Don't bother with
2.4; I rewrote all the block translation layer crap so the individual
translation drivers doesn't have to be too involved with the horridness
of the Linux block layer.

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dwmw2

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