From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:47:10 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1401231436300.8031@nuc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140122093435.GS4963@suse.de>
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Large block support was proposed years ago by Christoph Lameter
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/232757/). I think I was just getting started
> in the community at the time so I do not recall any of the details. I do
> believe it motivated an alternative by Nick Piggin called fsblock though
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/321390/). At the very least it would be nice to
> know why neither were never merged for those of us that were not around
> at the time and who may not have the chance to dive through mailing list
> archives between now and March.
It was rejected first because of the necessity of higher order page
allocations. Nick and I then added ways to virtually map higher order
pages if the page allocator could no longe provide those.
All of this required changes to the basic page cache operations. I added a
way for the mapping to indicate an order for an address range and then
modified the page cache operations to be able to operate on any order
pages.
The patchset that introduced the ability to specify different orders for
the pagecache address ranges was not accepted by Andrew because he thought
there was no chance for the rest of the modifications to become
acceptable.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-20 9:30 LSF/MM 2014 Call For Proposals Mel Gorman
2014-01-06 22:20 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] [ATTEND] persistent memory progress, management of storage & file systems Ric Wheeler
2014-01-06 22:32 ` faibish, sorin
2014-01-07 19:44 ` Joel Becker
2014-01-21 7:00 ` LSF/MM 2014 Call For Proposals Michel Lespinasse
2014-01-22 3:04 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 5:20 ` Joel Becker
2014-01-22 7:14 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-01-22 9:34 ` [Lsf-pc] " Mel Gorman
2014-01-22 14:10 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-22 14:58 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 15:19 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-22 17:02 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-22 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 18:02 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-22 18:13 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 18:17 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 18:35 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 18:39 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 19:30 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2014-01-22 20:13 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-23 2:46 ` David Lang
2014-01-23 5:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-23 8:35 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 12:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-23 19:49 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 21:21 ` Joel Becker
2014-01-22 20:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-22 18:37 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-22 18:40 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 18:47 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-23 21:27 ` Joel Becker
2014-01-23 21:34 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-23 16:44 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-23 19:55 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-24 10:57 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-30 4:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2014-01-30 6:01 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-30 10:50 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-23 20:34 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-01-23 8:24 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 20:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-01-22 20:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-23 8:21 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-22 15:14 ` Chris Mason
2014-01-22 16:03 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 16:45 ` Ric Wheeler
2014-01-22 17:00 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-22 21:05 ` Jan Kara
2014-01-23 20:47 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-01-24 11:09 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-24 15:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-01-22 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2014-03-14 9:02 ` Update on LSF/MM [was Re: LSF/MM 2014 Call For Proposals] James Bottomley
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