On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:35:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > caching bmap() blocks was a recent addition around 2.3.20, and i suggested > some time ago to cache pagecache blocks via explicit entries in struct > page. That would be one solution - but it creates overhead. > > but there isnt anything wrong with having the bhs around to cache blocks - > think of it as a 'cached and recycled IO buffer entry, with the block > information cached'. I was not talking about caching physical blocks but the remaining buffer-cache support stuff. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jamie Lokier
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Steve Lord
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Neil Brown
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
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