Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:01PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> We probably want another kind of "IO buffer" abstraction for 2.5 which can
> support buffer's bigger than PAGE_SIZE. 
> 
> Do you have any thoughts on that, Stephen? 

XFS is already doing this, with pagebufs being used in their cache,
and kiobufs used for the IO submission.

--Stephen
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