From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] delayed allocation and multipage I/O patches for 2.5.6.
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:42:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5812.1015980135@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C8E6C63.E8B72195@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C8E6C63.E8B72195@zip.com.au> <3C8D9999.83F991DB@zip.com.au>, <3C8D9999.83F991DB@zip.com.au> <E16kkcq-0001rV-00@starship>
akpm@zip.com.au said:
> Really, I don't think we can lose page->buffers for *enough* users of
> address_spaces to make it worthwhile.
> If it was only being used for, say, blockdev inodes then we could
> perhaps take it out and hash for it, but there are a ton of
> filesystems out there...
I have plenty of boxes which never have any use for page->buffers. Ever.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-13 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 6:00 [CFT] delayed allocation and multipage I/O patches for 2.5.6 Andrew Morton
2002-03-12 11:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-12 20:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 11:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 11:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-13 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 21:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-14 11:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-13 0:42 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-03-18 19:16 ` Hanna Linder
2002-03-18 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-18 20:22 ` Hanna Linder
2002-03-18 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
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2002-03-19 0:41 rwhron
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