From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tux3@tux3.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: Tux3 Git tree available
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:32:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312123230.GA14425@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903120524.34150.phillips@phunq.net>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:24:33AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > That's interesting. Do you handle 1K block sizes with 64K page size? :)
>
> Not in its current incarnation. That would require 32 bytes worth of
> state while the current code just has a 4 byte map (4 bits X 8 blocks).
> I suppose a reasonable way to extend it would be 4 x 8 byte maps. Has
> somebody spotted a 64K page?
I believe SGI ship their ia64 kernels configured this way. Certainly
16k ia64 kernels are common, which would (if I understand your scheme
correctly) be 8 bytes worth of state in your scheme.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 16:25 Tux3 report: Tux3 Git tree available Daniel Phillips
2009-03-11 18:42 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-12 5:38 ` [Tux3] " Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 6:07 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-12 8:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 8:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 9:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 9:10 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 10:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 11:03 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 12:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 12:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-03-12 12:45 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 13:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 13:04 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 13:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-12 14:19 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-15 3:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-15 3:50 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-15 4:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-15 4:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-15 2:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-15 3:45 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-15 21:44 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-15 22:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-16 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-16 5:12 ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 6:38 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-16 10:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 17:06 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-13 9:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-12 17:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-15 3:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 9:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-03-12 10:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 15:30 ` Diego Calleja
2009-03-12 16:54 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-15 3:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-15 4:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-12 13:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-12 21:24 ` [Tux3] " Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 23:38 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-15 3:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 21:02 ` Roland Dreier
2009-03-15 4:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2009-03-12 16:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-12 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-12 20:46 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-15 3:58 ` Daniel Phillips
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