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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:30:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k5yj49bw.fsf@bzzz.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D495EA.3060200@redhat.com> (Eric Sandeen's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 09\:18\:34 -0800")

>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes:

 ES> Andrew Morton wrote:
 >> Sorry, we're seriously, seriously, seriously short on flags in the page
 >> struct and this patch is going to need one heck of a good case for it to be
 >> acceptable.

 ES> This was for the delayed allocation patchset, right; and by managing
 ES> this at the page level that means we can't do this for block size <
 ES> page size, I think...

I still think that having PG_booked and special code to handle
case when blocksize==pagesize is worthwhile -- we save 56 bytes
on 32bit and 104 bytes on 64bit for every written page.

thanks, Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15  8:45 booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 14:03 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 17:18 ` booked-page-flag.patch Eric Sandeen
2007-02-15 17:30   ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2007-02-15 20:56     ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 21:07       ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 23:23         ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:30           ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16  7:46             ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:56               ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16  8:06                 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:14                   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger
2007-02-16 16:02               ` booked-page-flag.patch Dave Kleikamp
2007-02-16 15:03           ` booked-page-flag.patch Theodore Tso
2007-02-15 20:21   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:17   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger

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