Re: [PATCH 03/10] idr: Rewrite ida

[David Teigland]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:38:36PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Millions of IDs is something that is fairly normal for DLM, since there
> > will be two DLM locks per cached inode with GFS2 and people tend to use
> > it on pretty large servers with lots of memory,
> 
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Is the 31 bits for the id limitation an
> issue for you? While I'm at changing ids to longs should be fairly
> trivial.

There is a dlm_lkb struct in memory for each id, so 31 bits will not
be a problem.
Dave

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