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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paolo Ornati <ornati@lycos.it>,
	gandalf@wlug.westbo.se, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Buffer and Page cache coherent? was: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:15:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040104171545.GR1882@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103144003.07cc10d9.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> No effort was made to optimise buffered blockdev reads because it is not
> very important and my main interest was in data coherency and filesystem
> metadata consistency.

Does that mean that blockdev reads will populate the pagecache in 2.6?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-04 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02 16:02 Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again) Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 18:08 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-02 21:04   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 21:27     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-03 10:20       ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-02 21:32     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-02 22:34       ` Martin Josefsson
2004-01-03 11:13         ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-03 22:40           ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 14:30             ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-05 23:19               ` Ram Pai
2004-01-07 14:59                 ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-07 19:23                   ` Ram Pai
2004-01-07 20:12                     ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-07 23:57                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-08  7:31                         ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09  1:05                         ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09  1:17                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 19:15                             ` Ram Pai
2004-01-09 19:44                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-10 14:48                               ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-10 16:00                                 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-10 16:19                                   ` Ed Sweetman
2004-01-10 17:29                                     ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-10 17:29                                   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-03-29 15:45               ` Ram Pai
2004-01-04 17:15             ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-01-04 22:10               ` Buffer and Page cache coherent? was: " Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 23:22                 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-04 23:32                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 23:45                     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-05  0:23                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-03 10:20       ` Paolo Ornati
2004-01-03  3:33     ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-03  4:15       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-03 13:39         ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-03 20:56           ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-01-04  3:02         ` jw schultz

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