On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 18:07 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > plain text document attachment (short-rasize.patch) > > Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned long' for the readahead > > indexes/sizes. > > > > This helps reduce memory consumption on 64bit CPU when > > a lot of files are opened. > > > > Note that the (smaller) 32bit index can support up to 16PB file. > > Which should be sufficient large at least for now. > > Perhaps merge prev_offset and prev_index into a pgoff_t prev? That > should give the same savings on 64bit and be more correct on 32bit.
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