Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754558AbXFNVhl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750821AbXFNVhe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:37:34 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:57688 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750695AbXFNVhd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:37:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support In-Reply-To: <20070614143248.736312f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070614193839.878721298@sgi.com> <20070614130645.cabdff1b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070614143248.736312f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 15 On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > We want the 100% case. Yes that is what we intend to do. Universal support for larger blocksize. I.e. your desktop filesystem will use 64k page size and server platforms likely much larger. fsck times etc etc are becoming an issue for desktop systems given the capacities and lockinhg becomes an issue the more multicore your desktops become. - 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/