Re: [08/17] Define functions for page cache handling

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> >  	struct radix_tree_root	page_tree;	/* radix tree of all pages */
> >  	rwlock_t		tree_lock;	/* and rwlock protecting it */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE
> > +	unsigned int		order;		/* Page order of the pages in
> > here */
> > +	unsigned int		shift;		/* Shift of index */
> > +	loff_t			offset_mask;	/* Mask to get to offset bits
> > */
> > +#endif
> >  	unsigned int		i_mmap_writable;/* count VM_SHARED mappings */
> >  	struct prio_tree_root	i_mmap;		/* tree of private and shared
> > mappings */
> >  	struct list_head	i_mmap_nonlinear;/*list VM_NONLINEAR mappings
> > */
> 
> Some comments about this :
> 
> 1) not optimal placement on 64bits arches (it creates one hole before
> i_mmap_writeable)

loff_t is a 64 bit long. We could put shift behind offset_mask.

> 2) sizeof(struct address_space) is an issue, given it is included in every
> inode, even sockets or pipes.

Right. I had an earlier implementation that just used an order field. See 
V2 of this patchset. That did a lot of shifting instead of lookups.
 
> -> 2.1) Do we really need 32 bits for 'order' and 'shift'

No. u8 would be sufficient. If you can stuff in other stuff in between 
then I can switch it.

> -> 2.2) Do we really need a 64bits offset_mask since it's a trivial arithmetic
> from 'shift' (or 'order') ?

It simplifies the generated asm code significantly.

> BTW, I presume splice() is not yet supported ? If yes, each pipe could hold 16
> 'big pages' so we probably can hit some DOS condition sooner...

Not yet. I'd be glad if you could come up with a patch that converts it.

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