Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:30:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:30:33 -0500 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:10506 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:30:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:27:36 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ben LaHaise , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Alan Cox , Manfred Spraul , Steve Lord , Linux Kernel List , kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Message-ID: <20010207192736.B23859@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Ben LaHaise , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Alan Cox , Manfred Spraul , Steve Lord , Linux Kernel List , kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20010206212503.A5426@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:35:58PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. - 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/