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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Break up large initrd reads
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:36:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE93302.9090900@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE93262.2030206@gmail.com>

On 12/14/2011 03:33 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> When I was testing in increments of 1 mb, 4 mb was the magic number that caused a hang.
> My system runs fine with 1mb and my original patch used that as blocksize.

Let's stick to 1 MiB.  Could you send an updated patch, including
changing the open-coding of the number into a #define?

Thanks,

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17 10:40 [PATCH v5 00/10] x86 EFI boot stub Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: Add missing bzImage fields to struct setup_header Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86, efi: Make efi_call_phys_prelog() CONFIG_RELOCATABLE-aware Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86: Don't use magic strings for EFI loader signature Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] efi.h: Add struct definition for boot time services Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] efi.h: Add efi_image_loaded_t Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] efi.h: Add allocation types for boottime->allocate_pages() Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] efi.h: Add graphics protocol guids Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] efi.h: Add boottime->locate_handle search types Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] efi: Add EFI file I/O data types Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 16:39   ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-10-17 18:28     ` Matt Fleming
2011-10-18  6:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-17 20:06   ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-15 18:51     ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-23  0:44       ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-23 19:27         ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-24 14:43           ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-24 16:58             ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-24 20:56             ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-24 21:07               ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-24 21:31                 ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-25  1:37               ` [PATCH] x86, efi: Break up large initrd reads Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-25  8:48                 ` Matt Fleming
2011-12-12 23:10                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-13 18:26                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:33                       ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-14 23:36                         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-16 12:30                           ` [PATCH v2] " Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-16 18:43                             ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-10  2:37 ` [tip:x86/efi] x86: Add missing bzImage fields to struct setup_header tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:38 ` [tip:x86/efi] x86: Don't use magic strings for EFI loader signature tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:38 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add struct definition for boot time services tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:39 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add efi_image_loaded_t tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:40 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add allocation types for boottime->allocate_pages() tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:41 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add graphics protocol guids tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:42 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add boottime->locate_handle search types tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10  2:42 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi: Add EFI file I/O data types tip-bot for Matt Fleming

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