Re: O->A loan

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 06:04:59AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
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> to also lock the vnode.  if the range of the loan is smaller than the
> range of the entry, we could split the entry.  do you think that would work?

Won't the range of the loan almost always be smaller than the range of the
entry?

Imagine reading through a 1MB file with 8K I/O requests.  That'll be 128
splits (and 128 merges, if the intent is to merge afterwards), won't it?

Thor