From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [wip-PATCH] Re: Large PAGE_SIZE
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:13:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B49AE09.CE19FBAC@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107091210570.1187-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm, interesting. At present page cache sizes from PAGE_SIZE to
> > 8*PAGE_SIZE are working here. Setting the shift to 4 or a 64KB page size
> > results in the SCSI driver blowing up on io completion.
>
> I hit that limit too: I believe it comes from unsigned short b_size.
That limit's not a big deal.. the limits in the lower-level disk drivers
are what you start hitting...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-05 5:06 [wip-PATCH] rfi: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE suppoort Ben LaHaise
2001-07-05 5:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 16:45 ` Large PAGE_SIZE Hugh Dickins
2001-07-05 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 18:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-05 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 20:41 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-07-05 20:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-06 5:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-09 3:04 ` [wip-PATCH] " Ben LaHaise
2001-07-09 11:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-09 13:13 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-07-09 14:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-09 14:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-09 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-10 5:53 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-07-10 16:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-18 0:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-18 18:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-22 23:08 ` Hugh Dickins
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