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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:18:38 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [wip-PATCH] Re: Large PAGE_SIZE
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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.

Hugh

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