From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: File BlockSize
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:57:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212205722.GH767@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002e01c1b397$1a26d270$3c00a8c0@baazee.com> <E16ae3z-0001xO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16ae3z-0001xO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Going to a block size bigger than page size causes all sorts of fun with
> allocation failures if there are not two pages free adjacent to one another
> when allocating, and isn't really worth the cost.
This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more
worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that?
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-12 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-12 7:30 File BlockSize Anish Srivastava
2002-02-12 7:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12 7:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-16 7:23 ` Hans Reiser
2002-02-18 21:14 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-12 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 20:57 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-12 22:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-12 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 22:16 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-13 0:36 ` Daniel Phillips
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