Re: [wip-PATCH] Re: Large PAGE_SIZE

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm, interesting.  At present page cache sizes from PAGE_SIZE to
> > 8*PAGE_SIZE are working here.  Setting the shift to 4 or a 64KB page size
> > results in the SCSI driver blowing up on io completion.
> 
> I hit that limit too: I believe it comes from unsigned short b_size.

That limit's not a big deal.. the limits in the lower-level disk drivers
are what you start hitting...

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