linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] mballoc patches

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:08:26 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mballoc patches



Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Alex actually pointed me the new mballoc patches at
> ftp://ftp.clusterfs.com/pub/people/alex/mballoc3
> 
> The series is the forward port of the same on top of
> d4ac2477fad0f2680e84ec12e387ce67682c5c13 (v2.6.23-rc2)
> 
> 
> I guess the mballoc3 patch at clusterfs.com is based on
> a patched ext3(I guess it is ext3 + extent tree local to
> clusterfs ? ). The following series is based on ext4.
> 
> 
> I tested the changes with different blocks per group
> combination and it seems to be working fine. (The last
> series did panic with mke2fs -g 800 )
> 
> 
> I will now look at splitting this to smaller patches.
> 
> NOTE : I am not sure whether patch 2 will be able to make the list.
> if not is there a place i can ftp/scp them so that others can access
> the same ?
> 
>

I am attaching below the PATCH 2/4 in .gz format. The uncompressed one
got dropped by the list.

-aneesh

Download attachment "0002-mballoc-core-patch.patch.gz" of type "application/x-gzip" (31201 bytes)