Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 14:36:25 EST


On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > > The above can be implemented fairly cleanly, and on a need-to-have
> > > basis. It's not something that'll break drivers.
> >
> > But its also not going to fix the hacks that we have in the kernel
> > to deal with > PAGE_SIZE i/o.
>
> No, but that's a _seperate_ issue! Don't keep mixing up the two.

Yes I understand that you want it to be a separate issue so we get get
more rationales for the hacks that we do to avoid the large
order allocations.
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