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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:45:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060301204502.63330347.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141075456.10542.25.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>  do_mpage_readpage(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned nr_pages,
>  -			sector_t *last_block_in_bio, get_block_t get_block)
>  +			sector_t *last_block_in_bio, struct buffer_head *map_bh,
>  +			unsigned long *first_logical_block, int *map_valid,
>  +			get_block_t get_block)

I wonder if we really need that map_valid pointer there.  The normal way of
communicating the validity of a bh is via buffer_uptodate().  I _think_
that's an appropriate thing to use here.  With appropriate comments, of
course..

If those options are not a sufficiently good fit then we can easily create
a new buffer-head.state bit for this purpose - there are lots to spare.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-02  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27 21:20 [PATCH 0/4] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02  1:51   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02  1:51   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02  2:22     ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-02  2:56       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 19:54         ` Tim Pepper
2006-02-27 21:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] pass b_size to ->get_block() Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02  1:52   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 17:17     ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages() Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02  4:45   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-03 16:51     ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] remove ->get_blocks() support Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-02  1:52 ` [PATCH 0/4] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages() Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 17:05   ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-03 20:32     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:54       ` Badari Pulavarty

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