Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030312AbWBVQ7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:59:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030282AbWBVQ7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:59:53 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:15023 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030307AbWBVQ7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:59:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:59:42 +0100 From: christoph To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: christoph , mcao@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, lkml , linux-fsdevel , vs@namesys.com, zam@namesys.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Message-ID: <20060222165942.GA25167@lst.de> References: <1140470487.22756.12.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060222151216.GA22946@lst.de> <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 14 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/