Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:39:49 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[e-mail]> wrote:

| Here is the (sd) patch to support > 4000 disks on 32-bit dev_t work
| in 2.5.67-mm tree.
| 
| This patch addresses the backward compatibility with device nodes
| issue. All the new disks will be addressed by only last major.
| 
| SCSI has 16 majors. Each major supports 16 disks currently.
| This patch leaves this assumption for first 15 majors and all the
| new disks addressable by 32/64 dev_t work will be added to
| SCSI last major#. This way, we don't need to create device
| nodes in /dev, if you switch between 2.4 and 2.5.
| 
| Any comments ?

 #define SD_MAJORS	16
-#define SD_DISKS	(SD_MAJORS << 4)
+#define SD_DISKS	((SD_MAJORS - 1) << 4)
+#define LAST_MAJOR_DISKS	(1 << (KDEV_MINOR_BITS - 4))
+#define TOTAL_SD_DISKS	(SD_DISKS + LAST_MAJOR_DISKS)
 
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ struct scsi_disk {
 static LIST_HEAD(sd_devlist);
 static spinlock_t sd_devlist_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 
-static unsigned long sd_index_bits[SD_DISKS / BITS_PER_LONG];
+static unsigned long sd_index_bits[TOTAL_SD_DISKS / BITS_PER_LONG];
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
~~~~~
If there's any chance that TOTAL_SD_DISKS is not a multiple of
BITS_PER_LONG, then the value above should better be

	(TOTAL_SD_DISKS + BITS_PER_LONG - 1) / BITS_PER_LONG

--
~Randy   ['tangent' is not a verb...unless you believe that
          "in English any noun can be verbed."]