From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Directories > 2GB
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:19:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061010091904.GA395@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452B0240.60203@xfs.org>
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:15:28PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> My recollection is that it used to default to on, it was disabled
> because it needs to map the buffer into a single contiguous chunk
> of kernel memory. This was placing a lot of pressure on the memory
> remapping code, so we made it not default to on as reworking the
> code to deal with non contig memory was looking like a major
> effort.
Exactly. The code works but tends to go OOM pretty fast at least
when the dir blocksize code is bigger than the page size. I should
give the code a spin on my ppc box with 64k pages if it works better
there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 16:56 Directories > 2GB Andreas Dilger
2006-10-04 17:51 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-09 21:53 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-10 1:55 ` David Chinner
2006-10-10 2:15 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-10 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-10-10 23:31 ` David Chinner
2006-10-11 16:49 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-12 0:26 ` David Chinner
[not found] ` <452D2086.2020204__28695.6273987473$1160585745$gmane$org@xfs.org>
2006-10-16 18:17 ` Andi Kleen
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