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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Reto Baettig <baettig@scs.ch>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: blkdev in pagecache
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:04:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010509170416.U2506@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010509043456.A2506@athlon.random> <3AF90A3D.7DD7A605@evision-ventures.com> <3AF93CA2.F2E8C5DB@mandrakesoft.com> <3AF95C2A.1765681E@scs.ch>
In-Reply-To: <3AF95C2A.1765681E@scs.ch>; from baettig@scs.ch on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:03:06PM +0200

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:03:06PM +0200, Reto Baettig wrote:
> Jeff Garzik schrieb:
> > 
> > Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > > > - I force the virtual blocksize for all the blkdev I/O
> > > >   (buffered and direct) to work with a 4096 bytes granularity instead of
> > >
> > > You mean PAGE_SIZE :-).
> 
> Or maybe 8192 bytes on alphas ?!? ;-)

Again, see my argument with Jens, if we make it 8k we risk triggering
lowlevel driver assumption about b_size being <= 4k. At least on my
alpha the fs has a 4k blocksize and I think I never tested myself using
a b_size of 8k yet and so I didn't wanted to put too many unknown
variables into the first equation ;).

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-09 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-09  2:34 blkdev in pagecache Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-09  9:13 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-09 12:48   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-09 15:03     ` Reto Baettig
2001-05-09 15:04       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-05-09 13:16   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-09 14:14     ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-09 14:20       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-09 14:22         ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-09 14:43     ` Martin Dalecki

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