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, 26 Jan 2001 12:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:37:17 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:36048 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:37:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:34:17 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , V Ganesh , lkml , Steve Lord Subject: Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ? Message-ID: <20010126173417.A14943@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010125164432.A12984@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:01PM -0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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/