On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:12 +0100, christoph wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:21:27PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Following patches add support to map multiple blocks in ->get_block().
> > This is will allow us to handle mapping of multiple disk blocks for
> > mpage_readpages() and mpage_writepages() etc. Instead of adding new
> > argument, I use "b_size" to indicate the amount of disk mapping needed
> > for get_block(). And also, on success get_block() actually indicates
> > the amount of disk mapping it did.
> >
> > Now that get_block() can handle multiple blocks, there is no need
> > for ->get_blocks() which was added for DIO.
> >
> > [PATCH 1/3] pass b_size to ->get_block()
> >
> > [PATCH 2/3] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()
> >
> > [PATCH 3/3] remove ->get_blocks() support
> >
> > I noticed decent improvements (reduced sys time) on JFS, XFS and ext3.
> > (on simple "dd" read tests).
> >
> > (rc3.mm1) (rc3.mm1 + patches)
> > real 0m18.814s 0m18.482s
> > user 0m0.000s 0m0.004s
> > sys 0m3.240s 0m2.912s
> >
> > Andrew, Could you include it in -mm tree ?
>
> Thanks Badari, with that interface changes the mpage_readpage changes
> look a lot nicer than my original version. I'd like to second
> the request to put it into -mm.
Thanks. Only current issue Nathan raised is, he wants to see
b_size change to u64 (instead of u32) to support really-huge-IO
requests. Does this sound reasonable to you ?
Thanks,
Badari
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