On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > 1) Is it possible for block device to assume that it will alway get big > requests (and aligned by big blocksize) ?
That is one of the key problems. We hope that Mel Gorman's antifrag work will get us there. > 2) Does metadata reading/writing occuress also using same big blocksize ? It can if the filesystem decides to and sets up the order the mapping. > 3 If so, How __bread/__getblk are affrected? Does returned buffer_head point > to whole block ? Correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/