On Friday 02 September 2005 04:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > I suppose I'll queue it up in -mm for a while, although I'm a bit dubious > about the whole idea... We'll gain some and we'll lose some - how do we > know it's a net gain?
I suspect it'll gain more than it loses. The only case where it might not gain is immediately someone reading the data from the page cache again after the write. But I suppose that's far less frequent than writing the data. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/