From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unified page and buffer cache?
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 20:50:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273279853.2444.3.camel@faldara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100507183000.GD17259@parisc-linux.org>
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 12:30 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> That would be possible, but would waste memory space. But we've all
> got gigabytes of ram these days, maybe nobody cares.
Why would it waste memory space? Either way it's in some memory mapping
somewhere. It's just a matter of what file it is associated with? The
inode of the directory, or the underlying block device?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-08 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 15:51 readahead on directories Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 0:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 14:57 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 16:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 18:10 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 20:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 20:59 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 22:06 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-22 7:01 ` Brad Boyer
2010-04-22 14:26 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-22 17:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-22 19:23 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-22 20:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-22 21:22 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-22 22:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-23 4:13 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 18:38 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 18:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 18:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 20:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 20:21 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 20:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 19:23 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 20:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 20:13 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 20:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-05-07 13:38 ` unified page and buffer cache? (was: readahead on directories) Phillip Susi
2010-05-07 13:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-05-07 15:45 ` unified page and buffer cache? Phillip Susi
2010-05-07 18:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-05-08 0:50 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-05-08 0:46 ` tytso
2010-05-08 0:54 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-08 12:52 ` tytso
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