On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:10:23PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > For some reason, today mballoc only allocates IOs which are exactly > stripe-sized on a stripe boundary. If you have a multiple (say, a > 128k IO on a 64k stripe) you may end up unaligned. > > It seems to me that a simple change to align stripe-multiple IOs > on stripe boundaries would be a very good idea, unless this breaks > some other mballoc heuristic for some reason... I've added this to the ext4 tree, thanks. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
