linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Break up large initrd reads

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Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:36:34 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Break up large initrd reads

On 12/14/2011 03:33 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> When I was testing in increments of 1 mb, 4 mb was the magic number that caused a hang.
> My system runs fine with 1mb and my original patch used that as blocksize.

Let's stick to 1 MiB.  Could you send an updated patch, including
changing the open-coding of the number into a #define?

Thanks,

	-hpa
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