Re: MM/VM todo list

Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05T21:26:24Z

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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