Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756761AbXICTdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:33:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756619AbXICTdV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:33:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51476 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756550AbXICTdT (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:33:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:33:08 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, adilger@clusterfs.com, sho@tnes.nec.co.jp, ext4 development , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k) Message-ID: <20070903193308.GA7771@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Christoph Lameter , Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, adilger@clusterfs.com, sho@tnes.nec.co.jp, ext4 development , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070828190735.292638294@sgi.com> <1188432669.3799.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1188434857.3799.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1188605538.3837.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070901183922.GA12907@infradead.org> <20070902152801.GA19962@infradead.org> <20070903134043.GB28962@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 14 On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:31:49PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > So you'd be fine with replacing the allocs with > > get_free_pages(GFP_xxx, get_order(size)) ? Yes. And rip out all that code related to setting up the slabs. I plan to add WARN_ONs to bio_add_page and friends to detect further usage of slab pages if there is any. - 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/