The simplest file system to use for larg blocksize support is ramfs.
Add a mount parameter that specifies the page order of the pages
that ramfs should use.
Note that ramfs does not use the lower layers (buffer I/O etc) so this
case is useful for initial testing of changes to large buffer size
support if one just wants to exercise the higher layers.
If you apply this patch and then you can f.e. try this:
mount -tramfs -o10 none /media
Mounts a ramfs filesystem with order 10 pages (4 MB)
cp linux-2.6.21-rc7.tar.gz /media
Populate the ramfs. Note that we allocate 14 pages of 4M each
instead of 13508..
umount /media
Gets rid of the large pages again
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ramfs/inode.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/fs/ramfs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/fs/ramfs/inode.c 2007-06-19 19:34:10.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/fs/ramfs/inode.c 2007-06-19 20:01:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ struct inode *ramfs_get_inode(struct sup
inode->i_blocks = 0;
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ramfs_aops;
inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &ramfs_backing_dev_info;
- mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER);
+ mapping_setup(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER,
+ sb->s_blocksize_bits - PAGE_SHIFT);
inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
default:
@@ -164,10 +165,15 @@ static int ramfs_fill_super(struct super
{
struct inode * inode;
struct dentry * root;
+ int order = 0;
+ char *options = data;
+
+ if (options && *options)
+ order = simple_strtoul(options, NULL, 10);
sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
- sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
- sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << order;
+ sb->s_blocksize_bits = order + PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
sb->s_magic = RAMFS_MAGIC;
sb->s_op = &ramfs_ops;
sb->s_time_gran = 1;
--
-
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