From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ext3 percpu counter fixes to suppport for ext3 unsigned long type free blocks counter
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:20:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060411222012.GA5007@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144782073.3986.15.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:01:13PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:09 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Mingming Cao wrote:
> >
> > > Here are the proposed patches to allow the ext3 free block accounting
> > > works with more than 8TB storage.
> >
> > Umm.. This is an issue on 32 bit platforms only. 64bit platforms x86_64,
> > ia64 etc do not need this. Would you make it arch specific?
>
> Yes, make sense. I will update my patch soon. Thanks.
Or make the counter s64? so that it stays 64 bit on all arches?
OR
why not change the global per-cpu counter type to unsigned long (as we
discussed earlier), so we don't need the extra "ul" flags and interfaces,
and all arches get a standard unsigned long return type? We could also
do away with percpu_read_positive then no? The applications for per-cpu
counters is going to be upcounters always methinks...
Thanks,
Kiran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-10 17:58 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ext3 percpu counter fixes to suppport for ext3 unsigned long type free blocks counter Mingming Cao
2006-04-11 17:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-04-11 19:01 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-11 22:20 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
2006-04-12 21:28 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2006-04-12 21:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-04-13 19:02 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-13 22:25 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-14 0:20 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-21 14:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext3 percpu counter fixes to suppport for more than 2**31 ext3 " Mingming Cao
2006-04-21 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-24 17:48 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-24 18:26 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-24 19:13 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-22 0:56 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-24 17:49 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-24 22:51 ` [RESEND][PATCH 1/2] percpu counter data type changes " Mingming Cao
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