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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Staging: zram: allow partial page operations
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:36:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1fwnc5pzu.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49aadk31u1.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (Jeff Moyer's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:49:26 -0400")

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:

Jeff> I don't think there's any reason the logical block size can't be
Jeff> increased.  For zram, so long as you don't care that the minimum
Jeff> I/O size is 64k on these systems (and by you, I mean the users of
Jeff> zram, like file systems, or anything using the block device
Jeff> directly), then it's a fine trade-off to make.

Jeff> Jens, Martin, what do you guys think about bumping the size of the
Jeff> queue_limits.logical_block_size?

When I wrote the code I thought 64K ought to be enough for anybody.

I don't have a problem bumping it as long as people are aware of the
implications bigger blocks have on the filesystems they put on top.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-14 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-10 13:28 [PATCH 1/4] Staging: zram: Remove useless offset calculation in handle_uncompressed_page() Jerome Marchand
2011-06-10 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] Staging: zram: Refactor zram_read/write() functions Jerome Marchand
2011-06-10 13:28   ` [PATCH 3/4] Staging: zram: allow partial page operations Jerome Marchand
2011-06-10 13:28     ` [PATCH 4/4] Staging: zram: Replace mutex lock by a R/W semaphore Jerome Marchand
2011-06-10 16:46       ` Nitin Gupta
2011-06-10 16:41     ` [PATCH 3/4] Staging: zram: allow partial page operations Nitin Gupta
2011-06-13  9:42       ` Jerome Marchand
2011-06-14 14:49         ` Jeff Moyer
2011-06-14 16:36           ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2011-07-01  9:47       ` Jerome Marchand
2011-07-14  3:19         ` Nitin Gupta
2011-07-14  3:25     ` Nitin Gupta
2011-07-14  3:24   ` [PATCH 2/4] Staging: zram: Refactor zram_read/write() functions Nitin Gupta
2011-06-10 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] Staging: zram: Remove useless offset calculation in handle_uncompressed_page() Nitin Gupta

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