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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:27:36 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
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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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