Re: The DM_BUFIO_HASH_BITS is defined as 20, any plan to make it flexible?

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 09:00:30 EST


On Tue, Dec 02 2014 at 3:43am -0500,
zhangxiao <xiao.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Experts,
>
> See drivers/md/dm-bufio.c as below:
> 50 /*
> 51 * Buffer hash
> 52 */
> 53 #define DM_BUFIO_HASH_BITS 20
> 54 #define DM_BUFIO_HASH(block) \
> 55 ((((block) >> DM_BUFIO_HASH_BITS) ^ (block)) & \
> 56 ((1 << DM_BUFIO_HASH_BITS) - 1))
> "drivers/md/dm-bufio.c" 1854L, 45375C
>
> DM_BUFIO_HASH_BITS was defined as 20 and it maybe not fit for some
> use case with limited resources. Do we have any plan to make it more
> flexible? Like module parameter or something else?

No immediate plans.
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