Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751388AbWBVShV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:37:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751386AbWBVShV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:37:21 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:22418 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750810AbWBVShT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:37:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() From: Dave Kleikamp To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: christoph , mcao@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, lkml , linux-fsdevel , vs@namesys.com, zam@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1140470487.22756.12.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060222151216.GA22946@lst.de> <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:37:17 -0600 Message-Id: <1140633437.9912.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:58 -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 ? Didn't someone point out that size_t would make more sense? There's no reason for a 32-bit architecture to have a 64-bit b_size. > Thanks, > Badari Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/