Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-07T18:30:43Z

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:35:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> caching bmap() blocks was a recent addition around 2.3.20, and i suggested
> some time ago to cache pagecache blocks via explicit entries in struct
> page. That would be one solution - but it creates overhead.
>
> but there isnt anything wrong with having the bhs around to cache blocks -
> think of it as a 'cached and recycled IO buffer entry, with the block
> information cached'.

I was not talking about caching physical blocks but the remaining
buffer-cache support stuff.

Christoph

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