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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp,
	hch@infradead.org, jack@ucw.cz, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [patch 12/17] vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:09:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728160904.f644fb85.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728230031.GA22218@infradead.org>

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:00:32 -0400
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:46:36PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
> > 
> > When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
> > pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO is
> > issued and this page will be uptodate.
> 
> I was under the impression we wanted to do this in a nicer way than 
> the hacky method?

The only description I've seen of "a nicer way" is vague two-word
descriptions of "changing readpage".  Or something.  No indication of
what those changes are, nor who will implement them nor when.

That just isn't solid enough to block a change which has significant
performance benefits.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 22:46 [patch 12/17] vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize akpm
2008-07-28 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-28 23:09   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-29  1:11     ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-04  7:19   ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-06  5:36     ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-06  5:36       ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-12  3:57     ` Hisashi Hifumi
2008-08-12  6:07       ` Nick Piggin

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