Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:28:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/19] stack space reduction (remove MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > .. > > > + do { > > > + if (buffer_async_read(bh)) > > > + submit_bh(READ, bh); > > > + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); > > > > That's a bug. > > I'm just not going to apply this patch.
Excellent idea.
There were some patches floating around a while back (Ben and Hugh, I think) which gave x86 a 64k soft PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. They will hit this problem. But they know about it now, and the fix is there.
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