Hey folks,
First off, sorry for spamming all the mailing lists, but I want to make
sure that everyone interested in kiobufs, aio and the like sees this.
Since the mass of discussion going on about kiobufs started, I ran a few
tests of the behaviour of various code when reading from a cached ~700m
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> A kiobuf is 124 bytes, a buffer_head 96. And a buffer_head is additionally
> used for caching data, a kiobuf not.
Go measure the cost of a distant cache miss, then complain about having
everything in one structure. Also, 1 kiobuf maps 16-128 times
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> Linus list of reasons like the amount of state are more interesting
The state is required, not optional, if we are to have a decent basis for
building asyncronous io into the kernel.
> Networking wants something lighter rather than heavier. Adding tons of
>
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