Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbWBVTAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:00:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751309AbWBVTAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:00:43 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:21463 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751123AbWBVTAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:00:43 -0500 Message-ID: <43FCB4D7.5090503@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:00:39 -0800 From: Badari Pulavarty User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Kleikamp 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() References: <1140470487.22756.12.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060222151216.GA22946@lst.de> <1140627510.22756.81.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <1140633437.9912.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1140633437.9912.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 21 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > 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. Yes. I meant to say size_t. - Badari - 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/