From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:27:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:27:13 -0500 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:43527 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:26:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:26:24 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rik van Riel Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list Message-ID: <20010105222624.A11770@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Rik van Riel , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010105221326.A10112@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/