From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
V Ganesh <ganesh@veritas.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:34:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010126173417.A14943@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010125164432.A12984@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251907110.11559-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251907110.11559-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:01PM -0200
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:01PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> We probably want another kind of "IO buffer" abstraction for 2.5 which can
> support buffer's bigger than PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on that, Stephen?
XFS is already doing this, with pagebufs being used in their cache,
and kiobufs used for the IO submission.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-26 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-25 10:47 inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ? V Ganesh
2001-01-25 16:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-25 20:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 21:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-26 11:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-26 19:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 21:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-26 17:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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2001-01-26 9:13 V Ganesh
2001-01-24 9:55 V Ganesh
2001-01-24 9:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-24 11:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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