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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NFS] Increase size of struct fid raw buffer
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:58:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080408075807.GA8893@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207641005.3635.238.camel@quoit>

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:50:05AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> I'm happy with that solution, although I'd assumed that the reason this
> field had a size in the first place was that the NFS people had a plan
> to use the structure as an allocation entity in the future. Can an NFS
> developer please confirm/deny this?
> 
> If everybody is happy with the plan, then I'll send a patch to make the
> change as you suggest shortly,

I've introduce it and I don't plan to use it as allocation entity.  I
don't quite remember why I sized it either, so it's conceptually fine
to make it a VLA.  Just do some testing with that variant please.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07  9:47 [NFS] Increase size of struct fid raw buffer Steven Whitehouse
2008-04-07 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-08  7:50   ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-04-08  7:58     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-08  9:57       ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-04-08 13:01       ` [NFS] Use a zero sized array for raw field in struct fid Steven Whitehouse
2008-04-09 16:13         ` J. Bruce Fields

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