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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...>, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...>, <mingo@...>, Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout
Date: Monday, October 22, 2007 - 7:46 pm

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:52:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

Yes. Especially if m is 2 or 1. A scatterlist on 64-bit x86 looks like
it takes 32 bytes, which means 128 elements fit on a page. One more
spills - ouch!

But maybe chaining means this doesn't matter any more. Maybe we can
even pick a nice moderate sg size and reduce the number of mempools we
need for these things.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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[PATCH 00/10] SG updates, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
[PATCH][SG] fix typo in ps3rom.c, Arnd Bergmann, (Tue Oct 23, 10:48 am)
[PATCH 08/10] [SG] Update arch/ to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 08/10] [SG] Update arch/ to use sg helpers, Benny Halevy, (Mon Oct 22, 5:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 08/10] [SG] Update arch/ to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 3:26 am)
[PATCH 07/10] [SG] Update swiotlb to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:11 pm)
[PATCH 06/10] [SG] Update net/ to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 06/10] [SG] Update net/ to use sg helpers, Christian Borntraeger, (Tue Oct 23, 6:44 am)
Re: [PATCH 06/10] [SG] Update net/ to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 6:45 am)
[PATCH 05/10] [SG] Update fs/ to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
[PATCH 04/10] [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 04/10] [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers, Heiko Carstens, (Tue Oct 23, 2:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 04/10] [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 3:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 04/10] [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers, Heiko Carstens, (Tue Oct 23, 3:16 am)
[PATCH 03/10] [SG] Update crypto/ to sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
[PATCH 02/10] [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 02/10] [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers, John Stoffel, (Tue Oct 23, 10:32 am)
Re: [PATCH 02/10] [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers, Heiko Carstens, (Tue Oct 23, 1:13 am)
Re: [PATCH 02/10] [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 1:16 am)
[PATCH] net: fix xfrm build - missing scatterlist.h include, Heiko Carstens, (Tue Oct 23, 1:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: fix xfrm build - missing scatterlist.h incl..., Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 3:28 am)
[PATCH] fix ll_rw_blk.c build on s390, Heiko Carstens, (Tue Oct 23, 1:42 am)
[PATCH 01/10] [SG] Add helpers for manipulating SG entries, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:10 pm)
[PATCH 10/10] Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SG sg validation, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:11 pm)
[PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 2:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Oct 23, 1:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 2:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Andi Kleen, (Tue Oct 23, 3:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 4:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Andi Kleen, (Tue Oct 23, 4:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 5:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Mon Oct 22, 3:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Oct 22, 3:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 22, 4:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Oct 22, 4:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 22, 5:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Oct 22, 5:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Oct 23, 5:29 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 5:41 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Oct 23, 6:33 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 6:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Oct 23, 7:27 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Tue Oct 23, 3:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 24, 2:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 5:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Oct 23, 5:50 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 5:55 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Oct 23, 6:23 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 23, 11:22 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Rusty Russell, (Thu Oct 25, 4:40 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 25, 11:40 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Paul Mackerras, (Fri Oct 26, 1:01 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 10:52 am)
[RFC PATCH 1/2] sg_ring instead of scatterlist chaining, Rusty Russell, (Mon Nov 5, 2:11 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] sg_ring instead of scatterlist chaining, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Nov 5, 12:40 pm)
[RFC PATCH 2/2] sg_ring instead of scatterlist chaining in v..., Rusty Russell, (Mon Nov 5, 2:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Fri Oct 26, 1:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Benny Halevy, (Thu Oct 25, 12:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 25, 5:11 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Rusty Russell, (Thu Oct 25, 7:54 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Rusty Russell, (Thu Oct 25, 8:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 24, 4:05 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Wed Oct 24, 5:03 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 24, 5:12 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 24, 11:16 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Olivier Galibert, (Wed Oct 24, 9:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 24, 9:38 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Olivier Galibert, (Wed Oct 24, 9:45 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 6:29 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Tue Oct 23, 3:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, David Miller, (Mon Oct 22, 8:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 22, 5:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Matt Mackall, (Mon Oct 22, 5:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 22, 6:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Matt Mackall, (Mon Oct 22, 7:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 22, 8:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Benny Halevy, (Mon Oct 22, 5:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Matt Mackall, (Mon Oct 22, 4:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout, Jens Axboe, (Mon Oct 22, 3:52 pm)
powerpc: Fix fallout from sg_page() changes, Olof Johansson, (Tue Oct 23, 12:09 am)
Re: powerpc: Fix fallout from sg_page() changes, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 3:13 am)
IB/ehca: Fix sg_page() fallout, Olof Johansson, (Tue Oct 23, 12:31 am)
Re: IB/ehca: Fix sg_page() fallout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 1:05 am)
Re: IB/ehca: Fix sg_page() fallout, Olof Johansson, (Tue Oct 23, 1:54 am)
Re: IB/ehca: Fix sg_page() fallout, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 23, 3:12 am)