Re: Buffer cache mechanism

2014-04-26 Thread Pranay Kr. Srivastava
On April 26, 2014 5:50:16 PM GMT+05:30, Satheesaran satheesa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I was reading through the text, The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice Bach While reading through the Buffer cache, I had the following query Buffer data structure, has Buffer header + pointer

Re: APIs to submit bios at block layer

2014-04-14 Thread Pranay Kr. Srivastava
On April 14, 2014 8:21:05 PM GMT+05:30, KASHISH BHATIA kashish.bhatia1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Could anyone explain the difference between submit_bio() and generic_make_request() ? How they are different in functionality? How lower layers treat bios submitted via submit_bio() /

Re: Kernel Module Compilation error

2014-04-14 Thread Pranay Kr. Srivastava
On April 15, 2014 3:26:14 AM GMT+05:30, Arun M Kumar arunkr.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I get the following error while compiling my very basic kernel Module (a hello world module) *