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From: Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>
To: "Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger IO bitmap?
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 02:56:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC46643.5060909@yahoo.com> (raw)

Hello.

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> you are using megabytes for your TSS's only !
> Keep in mind that a task's io bitmap is now lazily allocated, so by 
> default no memory will be allocated for it.
Thanks, indeed browsing the 2.5 sources
at BK I see it is already done that way.
Had to upgrade before asking, as it doesn't
seem to be the case for 2.4(.19).
But then what are the reasons for the IO
bitmap to still be small at all? Are there
any reasons left?

> A similar enhancement 
> for large vs small io bitmaps could be made by allowing the task io 
> bitmap to be a variable size.
But is it really important?


             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-02 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-02 23:56 Stas Sergeev [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-02 22:47 Larger IO bitmap? Stas Sergeev
2002-11-02 18:21 Stas Sergeev
2002-11-02 21:48 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-02 23:19   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-03  1:42   ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-02 23:38 ` Denis Vlasenko

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