linux-kernel - Re: PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 aoe: handle zero

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Message-ID: <20070302051524.GA26803@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 05:15:24 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, support@...aid.com,
	"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@...aid.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 aoe: handle zero _count pages in bios

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:09:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > or document that drivers need to handle it specially and give them a
> > way to find out about them. (Or do the horrible slab refcounting hack
> > I wrote up above)
> 
> OK.  So you're proposing that XFS and ext3 simply stop sing slab for this
> memory?

Yes.
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