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SubjectRe: 2.4.19pre5aa1 and splitted vm-33
> Only in 2.4.19pre5aa1: 20_kiobuf-slab-2
>
> Other patch from Chuck Lever to allocate the whole kiobuf from slab,
> using pointer to arrays, to have small structures not larger
> than one page (that would otherwise become sensitive to
> physical ram page granular fragmentation). While auditing and
> merging the patch I also did various small fixes, so please rely
> on this patch as a final version, because the original one had a few
> bugs/leftovers.

What is the reason for adding kio_ prefixes to the 'blocks' and 'bh' members
of struct kiobuf? - These fields haven't any new semantics at all, but that
change increases the delta dramatically.

> Merged various fixes, in particular delayed writes should now be
> really flushed by the VM, previously the fact the vm holds
> the page lock was forbidding that. New logic is much cleaner too.

Do you plan to submit the XFS delalloc changes back to SGI?

Christoph

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