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@ 2003-01-22 15:15 David Chow
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From: David Chow @ 2003-01-22 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

I am writing a persistent disk cache for a network file system. Is it 
true to use bmap() plus some buffer head ops, is generally faster than 
readpage() and commit_write() paths? As I know the buffer head has a 
reference to the page, that means in terms of memory consumption, they 
are the same (please clarify)?? Not sure which is better.. it seems bmap 
is lower level, but I'm not sure is there any equivalent code like 
grab_cache_page() and read_cache_page() so that I can find so 
in-page_cache pages to save some I/O time. Please advice on usage and 
potential pitfalls. Thanks for any comments.

regards,
David Chow


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