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    ext-partition-types: Add 4:1 partitions · 93c39e91
    Rupert Swarbrick authored
    This patch adds support for 4:1 rectangular blocks to various common
    data arrays, and adds new partition types to the EXT_PARTITION_TYPES
    experiment which will use them.
    
    This patch has the following restrictions, which can be lifted in
    future patches:
    
      * ext-partition-types is incompatible with fp_mb_stats and supertx
        for the moment
    
      * Currently only 32x32 superblocks can use the new partition types
    
    There's a slightly odd restriction about when we allow
    PARTITION_HORZ_4 or PARTITION_VERT_4. Since these both live in the
    EXT_PARTITION_TYPES CDF, read_partition() can only return them if both
    has_rows and has_cols is true. This means that at least half of the
    width and height of the block must be visible. It might be nice to
    relax that restriction but that would imply a change to how we encode
    partition types, which seems already to be in a state of flux, so
    maybe it's better to wait until that has settled down.
    
    Change-Id: Id7fc3fd0f762f35f63b3d3e3bf4e07c245c7b4fa
    93c39e91
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