linux-kernel - Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:29:39 -0700
From:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	andrea@...e.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.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,
	hugh@...itas.com, joern@...ybastard.org
Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>> But that's not my place to say, and I'm actually not arguing that high
>> order pagecache does not have uses (especially as a practical,
>> shorter-term solution which is unintrusive to filesystems).
>>
>> So no, I don't think I'm really going against the basics of what we agreed
>> in Cambridge. But it sounds like it's still being billed as first-order
>> support right off the bat here.
> 
> Well its seems that we have different interpretations of what was agreed 
> on. My understanding was that the large blocksize patchset was okay 
> provided that I supply an acceptable mmap implementation and put a 
> warning in.

I think all we agreed on was that both patches needed significant work
and would need to be judged after they were completed ;-)

There was talk of putting Christoph's approach in more-or-less as-is
as a very specialized and limited application ... but I don't think
we concluded anything for the more general and long-term case apart
from "this is hard" ;-)

M.
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