Hi Daniel,
It is very cumbersome to deal with small (512, 1024 or 2048) blocksize.
I used fixed size (4096 bytes) block to save the exception list.
If the blocksize is 512 byte, I have to invoke __getblk() 8 times to read
the exception list. And what more cumbersome is, my exception list
struct might scatter in 8 non-continuous memory segments.
In my code, each exception is presented by a 6-bytes struct. 4K
block can present an exception list containing at most about 670
exceptions. If I used 512 bytes block to present an exception list,
the number is just about 80. That is too small.
So, it's really a big favor to me if __getblk() could read 4K buffer
head in any case.
PS: There is no other kernel component have the demand like my
case? I am learning ext FS code now.
Regards.
Cong Meng.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Meng,
>
> The patch looks sensible, however the question is: why do you want to
> do this? Would it not be better to generalize your metadata format to
> accomodate the device's native blocksize?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>> a kernel patch
>> --------------
>> Now, dm-snap-mv highly depends on a kernel patch below, which make __getblk()
>> can get a 4K buffer head while block size of the disk is NOT 4K.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cong Meng <mcpacino@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/buffer.c | 7 ++-----
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
>> index 3e7dca2..f7f9d33 100644
>> --- a/fs/buffer.c
>> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
>> @@ -1051,10 +1051,7 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
>> pgoff_t index;
>> int sizebits;
>>
>> - sizebits = -1;
>> - do {
>> - sizebits++;
>> - } while ((size << sizebits) < PAGE_SIZE);
>> + sizebits = PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits;
>>
>> index = block >> sizebits;
>>
>> @@ -2924,7 +2921,7 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head * bh)
>> */
>> bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
>>
>> - bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
>> + bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr << (bh->b_bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits - 9);
>> bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
>> bio->bi_io_vec[0].bv_page = bh->b_page;
>> bio->bi_io_vec[0].bv_len = bh->b_size;
>
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