Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: Update size type to support greater then 4GB size. | From | Ashish Mhetre <> | Date | Mon, 24 Dec 2018 13:37:00 +0530 |
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We don't have a real use-case for this. Understanding the consequences, we are questioning the patch in downstream itself. Please ignore this patch for now.
On 12/12/18 1:36 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > scatterlist elements longer than 4GB sound odd. Please submit it > in a series with your actual user so that we can help figuring out > if it really makes sense or if there is a better way to solve your > problem. > > As is this patch will massively increase the memory usage for all users > of struct scatterlist, so you better have a really good reason. >
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