Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:15:45 -0800
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)
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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?
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