William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:42:52PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > The patch below fixes that remap issue, plus uncounted number of other loop
> > issues. For example, device backed loops use pre-allocated pages for zero VM
> > pressure.
>
> I'd like to understand this (and possibly even use it) as I tend to use
> the loopback block driver often. Any chance you could break this up into
> a blow-by-blow series of bugfixes? As it is here, it's a bit much for me
> to digest as a newbie to bio.
>
> My needs for explanation are perhaps greater than others on the cc: list,
> so it's really optional, but I'd be much obliged if you could do so.
>
Seconded, please. It's obviously an important patch but it's
rather large and opaque. A description of what it is doing and
in particularly *why* it is doing it would really help.
A nice way of providing such a description is inside
/*
* these thingies
*/
so the information is not lost.
I particular:
- Does the file_operations-based file-backed IO work with all
crypto setups?
- What are those preallocated pages doing? Are they really needed
with the 2.5 VM? What problem are they solving?
Thanks.
(BTW: check out the ARRAY_SIZE macro ;))
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