From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:26:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010105222624.A11770@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010105221326.A10112@caldera.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101051918550.1295-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101051918550.1295-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO.
> >
> > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM.
> > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs
> > in the filesystem IO...
>
> Could be interesting ... but is it generalised enough to
> also work with eg. network IO ?
No other then filesystem IO (page/buffercache) is actively tied to the VM,
so there should be no problems.
Christoph
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:26:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010105222624.A11770@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101051918550.1295-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO.
> >
> > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM.
> > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs
> > in the filesystem IO...
>
> Could be interesting ... but is it generalised enough to
> also work with eg. network IO ?
No other then filesystem IO (page/buffercache) is actively tied to the VM,
so there should be no problems.
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-05 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-05 17:14 MM/VM todo list Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 17:14 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 15:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 15:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 17:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 17:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 16:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 16:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:20 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:20 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-01-05 21:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-05 21:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-05 17:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-05 17:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-08 17:31 ` afei
2001-01-08 17:31 ` afei
2001-01-08 17:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 20:23 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-08 20:23 ` Rasmus Andersen
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