From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B49AE09.CE19FBAC@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:13:45 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [wip-PATCH] Re: Large PAGE_SIZE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ben LaHaise , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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... -- Jeff Garzik | A recent study has shown that too much soup Building 1024 | can cause malaise in laboratory mice. MandrakeSoft | -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/