Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Christoph Lameter
2007-04-26T07:11:06Z

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > Right and we need to create series of other approaches that we then label
> > "non-hack" to replace it.
>
> I don't understand? We're talking about several utterly different designs
> to approach these problems. You don't agree that one might be better than
> another?

What I seeing is a series of approaches being put into the kernel to
address this issue. We already have the lumpy reclaim there. Then we talk
about other fixed to basic page handling in the kernel to make it better.
Now you want yet another fs layer. All of that could be taken care of by
a defrag approach with larger pages. This has been done a number of times
before and actually the large page approach is a textbook example on how
to improve performance. It goes waaaay back.

> > The code paths can stay the same. You can switch CONFIG_LARGE pages off
> > if you do not want it and it is as it was.
>
> That isn't a good reason to merge something. If you don't have numbers then
> that just seems incredible.

Dont worry you will get numbers... Just did not have time to fix the bug
in this one since I had to take care of something else.