Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932981AbXHaHDx (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759654AbXHaHDo (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:03:44 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:60237 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759058AbXHaHDn (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:03:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:03:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Jens Axboe cc: Dmitry Monakhov , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , William Lee Irwin III , David Chinner , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, "H. Peter Anvin" , joern@lazybastard.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [11/36] Use page_cache_xxx in fs/buffer.c In-Reply-To: <20070831065613.GH29452@kernel.dk> Message-ID: References: <20070828190551.415127746@sgi.com> <20070828190730.220393749@sgi.com> <20070830092038.GD22586@dnb.sw.ru> <20070831065613.GH29452@kernel.dk> 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: 527 Lines: 15 On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > > So if we try to push a too large buffer down with submit_bh() we get a > > failure. > > Only partly, you may be violating a number of other restrictions (size > is many things, not just length of the data). Could you be more specific? - 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/