Re: [PATCH] simplify b_inode usage

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:22:48 -0700


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> ...
> > Also, Joe Thornber needs to add another pointer to struct buffer_head
> > for LVM2 reasons. If we collapse b_inode into a b_flags bit then
> > Joe gets his pointer for free (bh stays at 48 bytes on ia32).
>
> We also need to make b_size an 32 bit quantity, otherwise 64k buffers
> on architectures like ia64 will get us horrible overflows. And yes,
> people use that big pages - Nathan just added an ugly workaround to XFS,
> for splitting 64k pages into multiple bh, because of that exactly that
> limitation.

OK. We'd need to prevent that from taking bh beyond the current 96 bytes.
The hashed wakeups, perhaps.

> >
> > So I'd suggest you just go ahead and do it that way. (I had a patch
> > for that but seem to have misplaced it).
>
> As the patch is already large enough I'd be happy if Marcelo applies the
> current patch, once it's in I'll move the indicator to b_flags, okay?

Yup.
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