On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:15:28PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> My recollection is that it used to default to on, it was disabled
> because it needs to map the buffer into a single contiguous chunk
> of kernel memory. This was placing a lot of pressure on the memory
> remapping code, so we made it not default to on as reworking the
> code to deal with non contig memory was looking like a major
> effort.
Exactly. The code works but tends to go OOM pretty fast at least
when the dir blocksize code is bigger than the page size. I should
give the code a spin on my ppc box with 64k pages if it works better
there.
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