Re: openldap.git branch mdb.master updated. 0ce6bb4be0034120c850917bc4f59b4d4efc1432

I wrote:

A simple variant of page ranges, to save space and simplify range handling: /* Page range: (pagecount << MDB_PGNO_BITS) | (pageno + pagecount) */ typedef pgno_t mdb_pages_t;

Lone pages get pagecount=1. With MDB_PGCOUNT_BITS = (64bit 4 ? 19 : 12)

MDB_PGCOUNT_BITS = sizeof(mdb_pages_t)*CHAR_BIT - MDB_PGNO_BITS, i.e. mdb_pages_t's remainig bits.

and page size 4096, that limits MDB to a 128 petabyte DB and 2G entry size. Or 4G database and 16M entry size on 32-bit machines. (I'd call limiting the entry size a bonus compared to today's mdb: The current freelist doesn't exactly handle 2 billion freed pages gracefully.)

2/4096 billion.