lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Dec]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH] scatterlist: Update size type to support greater then 4GB size.
From
Date
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.
>

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-12-24 09:07    [W:1.129 / U:0.008 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site