From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/19] stack space reduction (remove MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:28:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0F89D7.88F741E2@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0206181006200.2347-100000@home.transmeta.com
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > ..
> > > + do {
> > > + if (buffer_async_read(bh))
> > > + submit_bh(READ, bh);
> > > + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
> >
> > That's a bug.
>
> I'm just not going to apply this patch.
Excellent idea.
There were some patches floating around a while back (Ben and Hugh,
I think) which gave x86 a 64k soft PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. They will hit
this problem. But they know about it now, and the fix is there.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 6:51 [patch 4/19] stack space reduction (remove MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE) Andrew Morton
2002-06-17 9:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-18 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-18 19:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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