Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:07:03 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre5aa1 and splitted vm-33 |
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> 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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