Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-09-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > by mixing large order pages into the regular lru, page aging gets rather > unfair. Not in general, only for particular loads. On average this is okay. It is consistent to age the whole block and not just a part of it. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Todo/Issues: - reclaim by mixing large order pages into the regular lru, page aging gets rather unfair. One possible solution to this is address_space based reclaim, something which might also be beneficial for containers. - To un

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-08-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
Thanks to some help Mingming Cao we now have support for extX with up to 64k blocksize. There were several issues in the jbd layer (The ext2 patch that Christoph complained about was dropped). The patchset can be tested (assuming one has a current git tree) git checkout -b largeblock git pu

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > one patch per file is the most braindead and most unacceptable way > to split a series. Please stop whatever you're doing right now and > correct it and send out a patch that has one patch per logical change > for the whole tree. This means people

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Stoopp! This patchseries is entirely unacceptable! one patch per file is the most braindead and most unacceptable way to split a series. Please stop whatever you're doing right now and correct it and send out a patch that has one patch per logical change for the whole tree. This means peopl

[00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-08-28 Thread clameter
[An update before the Kernel Summit because of the numerous requests that I have had for this patchset. Please speak up if you feel that we need something like this.] This patchset modifies the Linux kernel so that larger block sizes than page size can be supported. Larger block sizes are handled