Re: Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 622-swapwriter.patch

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:32, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,817 @@
> > > +struct io_info {
> > > +       struct bio * sys_struct;
> > > +       long block[PAGE_SIZE/512];

Nigel Cunningham writes:
> No...  it's the maximum number of blocks per page. Depending upon how
> the user has set the blocksize when they created the filesystem (in the
> case of filesystems), the number of blocks we use per page might be 1,
> 2, 4 or 8. 
>
> It's long because a sector number is stored in it.

The field block wants a better name. block_sectors, perhaps? 

               Pekka 

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