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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] UML - Limit request size on COWed devices
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odigw2ma.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713143755.GA6244@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (Jeff Dike's message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:37:55 -0400")

On 13 Jul 2007, Jeff Dike uttered the following:

> COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one
> request due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the
> io_thread_req.

This feels like a -stable candidate to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 14:37 [PATCH 2/3] UML - Limit request size on COWed devices Jeff Dike
2007-07-13 19:00 ` Nix [this message]
2007-07-13 20:46   ` Jeff Dike

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