Re: [PATCH 1/6] compacting file_ra_state

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 18:07 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (short-rasize.patch)
> > Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned long' for the readahead indexes/sizes.
> > 
> > This helps reduce memory consumption on 64bit CPU when
> > a lot of files are opened.
> > 
> > Note that the (smaller) 32bit index can support up to 16PB file.
> > Which should be sufficient large at least for now.
> 
> Perhaps merge prev_offset and prev_index into a pgoff_t prev? That
> should give the same savings on 64bit and be more correct on 32bit.

s/pgoff_t/loff_t/

(and how come lkml was not on the CC list?)

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