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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Patches to support subpagesize blocksize
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:58:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213155850.GZ6498@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386947820.4241.22.camel@chandra-dt.ibm.com>

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:17:00AM -0600, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > For a full compatibility with any blocksize on arch with any pagesize
> > you'd need to implement the case when sectorsize is larger than
> > pagesize. Your patchset does the "4k sector/64k page", but I haven't
> > noticed the "64k sector/4k page" counterpart.
> 
> My object was to make btrfs filesystems from other arches to be directly
> usable in PPC64.

Ok then.

> Nevertheless, IIUC, btrfs currently support such a case. Each extent
> buffers currently can have up to INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES(16). 
> 
> -------
> #define INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES 16
> 
> struct extent_buffer {
>         :
>         :
>         struct page *pages[INLINE_EXTENT_BUFFER_PAGES];
>         :
> };
> --------
> 
> No ?

Just for metadata blocks.

> There are some issues with relocation too. Is there similar assumption
> in that code path too ?

I don't know. If yes, then it's different from the compression issues,
because there are some hardwired assumptions about the binary format of
the compressed data, while relocation uses the common code.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 23:38 [PATCH 0/7] Patches to support subpagesize blocksize Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Define extent_buffer_head Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-16 12:32   ` saeed bishara
2013-12-16 16:17     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-17 15:35       ` David Sterba
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 2/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Use a global alignment for size Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-16 12:33   ` saeed bishara
2013-12-16 14:48     ` David Sterba
2013-12-16 16:18       ` Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 3/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Handle small extent maps properly Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 4/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Handle iosize properly in submit_extent_page() Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 5/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: handle checksum calculations properly Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Handle relocation clusters appropriately Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-11 23:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] btrfs: subpagesize-blocksize: Allow mounting filesystems where sectorsize != PAGE_SIZE Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-13  1:07   ` David Sterba
2013-12-16 12:50     ` saeed bishara
2013-12-12 20:40 ` [PATCH 0/7] Patches to support subpagesize blocksize Josef Bacik
2013-12-13  1:17 ` David Sterba
2013-12-13 15:17   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2013-12-13 15:58     ` David Sterba [this message]
2013-12-13 18:39 ` Josef Bacik
2013-12-13 22:09   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2014-01-08 20:06   ` Chandra Seetharaman

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