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Message-ID: <46304FAF.7020700@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:07:27 +1000 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: David Chinner <dgc@....com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 David Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:53:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Christoph Lameter wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: >>> >>>>I am working now and again on some code to do this, it is a big job but >>>>I think it is the right way to do it. But it would take a long time to >>>>get stable and supported by filesystems... >>> >>>Ummm... We already have a radix tree for this???? What more is needed? You >>>just need to go through all filesystems and make them use extends. >> >>I'm talking about block size > page size in the buffer layer. > > > Nick, what's the buffer layer? Are you talking about operations > based on bufferheads? Yeah. Our pgoff_t->sector_t translation. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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