On Monday 03 December 2007 22:26:28 Nick Piggin wrote:
> There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
> metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
> However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the
> device is now
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:01:31AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for the review, I'll post an incremental patch in a sec.
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/blo
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:29:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:26:28 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
> > metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
>
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:26:28 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my proposal for a (hopefully) backwards compatible rd driver.
> The motivation for me is not pressing, except that I have this code
> sitting here that is either going to rot or get merged. I'm happy to
> m
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:10:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:34:49 -0800
> Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We use the macros PAGE_CACHE_SIZE PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT PAGE_CACHE_MASK
> > and PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN in various places in the kernel. Many times
> > commo
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:34:55AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Use page_cache_xxx in mm/migrate.c
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c |2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Ind
Hi,
This is my proposal for a (hopefully) backwards compatible rd driver.
The motivation for me is not pressing, except that I have this code
sitting here that is either going to rot or get merged. I'm happy to
make myself maintainer of this code, but if any real block device
driver writer would l
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:34:49 -0800
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We use the macros PAGE_CACHE_SIZE PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT PAGE_CACHE_MASK
> and PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN in various places in the kernel. Many times
> common operations like calculating the offset or the index are coded
> using shi
Hello!
On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Felix Blyakher wrote:
Per our discussion, I am resending this patch that fixes a leak
in nlmsvc_testlock.
It is addition to another leak fixing patch you already have.
Without the patch, there is a leakage of nlmblock structure
refcount that holds a
On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Oleg Drokin wrote:
Hello!
Per our discussion, I am resending this patch that fixes a leak
in nlmsvc_testlock.
It is addition to another leak fixing patch you already have.
Without the patch, there is a leakage of nlmblock structure
refcount that hold
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:50:59PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > Distributed storage documentation.
> >
> > Algorithms used in the system, userspace interfaces
> > (sysfs dirs and files), design and implementation details
> > are described here.
>
> Can you give us
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