Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Christoph Lameter
2007-04-30T05:23:27Z

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> 1) Is it possible for block device to assume that it will alway get big
> requests (and aligned by big blocksize) ?

That is one of the key problems. We hope that Mel Gorman's antifrag work
will get us there.

> 2) Does metadata reading/writing occuress also using same big blocksize ?

It can if the filesystem decides to and sets up the order the mapping.

> 3 If so, How __bread/__getblk are affrected? Does returned buffer_head point
> to whole block ?

Correct.