Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() andmpage_readpages()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 21:02:57 EST


Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's four extra bytes on an 88 byte structure (with sector_t
> CONFIG'd at 64 bits)

oy, buffer_heads are 48 bytes - took a few months out of my life, that did.
That's where it most counts - memory-constrained non-LBD 32-bit platforms.

Making b_size size_t doesn't affect that, so..
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