From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
axboe@suse.de, martin@dalecki.de, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:21:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020514082130.A15907@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020513131339.A4610@infradead.org> <15584.23204.925373.44968@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> <3CE071F7.347C78B5@zip.com.au>
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:09:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> I think Christoph's point is that a pagecache index is not a sector
> number. We agree that we need to plan for taking it to 64 bits, but
> it should be something different. Like pageindex_t, or whatever.
I don't think we want to increase it. First it grow struct page by 32bits
and second 64bit arithmetic on 32bit plattforms is still very expensive.
I'd rather see PAGE_CACHE_SIZE growing to address the issues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-14 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1060250300@toto.iv>
2002-05-13 10:28 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-13 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-14 0:30 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-14 1:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-16 20:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-14 2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-14 2:58 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-14 7:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-14 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] <581856778@toto.iv>
2002-05-17 0:04 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-17 0:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 13:32 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-17 18:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 18:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-17 18:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-17 19:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 15:26 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-05-15 9:41 Hirotaka Sasaki
2002-05-15 21:49 ` Steve Lord
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-10 3:53 Neil Brown
2002-05-10 3:36 Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-10 8:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-10 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-16 19:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-10 9:05 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-10 9:53 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-10 11:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-10 4:51 ` Martin Dalecki
[not found] ` <20020510084713.43ce396e.jeremy@kerneltrap.org>
2002-05-10 19:12 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 23:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-11 0:07 ` David Mosberger
2002-05-15 22:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-16 20:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-16 22:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-17 1:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-11 4:40 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-15 13:49 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-11 18:13 ` Padraig Brady
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