Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

Shawn Starr
2002-01-23T05:25:27Z

The VM is busy with other tasks so why not have a daemon handle pages
delegated from the VM? Having a pagebuf daemon would allow for delay
writes and allow for perhaps readahead buffering of data having theses
would take some pressure off of the VM no?

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 18:37, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2002, Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> > The only functionality added to the kernel would be a a interface for
> > filesystems to share it would basically create kpagebuf_* functions.
>
> What would these things achieve ?
>
> It would be nice if you could give us a quick explanation of
> what exactly kpagebufd is supposed to do, if only so I can
> keep that in mind while working on the VM ;)
>
> Rik
> --
> "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
> -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
>
> http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>