linux-kernel - Re: [11/36] Use page_cache

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708310003280.14375@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
cc:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...ru>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>,
	swin wang <wangswin@...il.com>, totty.lu@...il.com,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, joern@...ybastard.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [11/36] Use page_cache_xxx in fs/buffer.c

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:

> > So if we try to push a too large buffer down with submit_bh() we get a 
> > failure.
> 
> Only partly, you may be violating a number of other restrictions (size
> is many things, not just length of the data).

Could you be more specific?

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