From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/1: Device-Mapper: Remove 1024 devices limitation
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:38:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701143857.256959e5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407011035.13283.kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Remove the limitation of 1024 DM devices.
That seems to be an awful lot of fuss just to maintain a bitmap.
What is a realistic useful upper bound on the minors? Would it not be sufficient
to increase the size of the statically allocated bitmap?
Did you consider going to a different data structure altogether? lib/radix-tree.c and
lib/idr.c provide appropriate ones.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-01 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 15:35 Kevin Corry
2004-07-01 21:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-02 2:54 ` Kevin Corry
2004-07-02 3:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-02 17:33 ` Kevin Corry
2004-07-02 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 18:23 ` Kevin Corry
2004-07-06 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 21:35 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-07-06 22:04 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-07-06 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 22:07 ` Jim Houston
2004-07-06 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 23:00 ` Jim Houston
2004-07-06 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-07 10:58 ` Jim Houston
2004-07-07 11:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-12 14:49 ` Kevin Corry
2004-07-12 18:14 ` Andrew Morton
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