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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: ebiederm+eric@npwt.net
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: More info: 2.1.108 page cache performance on low memory
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:57:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199808171357.OAA02998@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808020002110.424-100000@iddi.npwt.net>

Hi,

Sorry, I'm just back from 2 weeks on holiday.

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:19:52 -0500 (CDT), Eric W Biederman
<eric@flinx.npwt.net> said:

>> We *need* a mechanism which is block-aligned, not page-aligned.  The
>> buffer cache is a good way of doing it.  Forcing block device caching
>> into a page-aligned cache is not necessarily going to simplify things.

> The page-aligned property is only a matter of the inode,offset hash
> table, and virtually nothing else really cares.  Shrink_mmap, or
> pgflush, the most universall parts of the page cache do not.

Any mmap()able files *need* to be page aligned in cache.  Internal
filesystem accesses are always block aligned, not page aligned.  That's
the conflict.

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~1998-08-17 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-13 16:53 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-13 18:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-07-13 18:29   ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-14 17:32     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-16 12:31       ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-14 17:30   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-18  1:10     ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-07-18 13:28       ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-18 16:40         ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-07-20  9:15           ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-22 10:40             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 10:06               ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 12:22                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 14:07                   ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 17:18                     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 19:33                       ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-27 10:57                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-26 14:49                 ` Eric W Biederman
1998-07-27 11:02                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-08-02  5:19                     ` Eric W Biederman
1998-08-17 13:57                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1998-08-17 15:35                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-08-20 12:40                         ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-07-20 15:58           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-22 10:36           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-22 18:01             ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-23 10:59               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-22 10:33         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 10:59           ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 12:23             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 15:06               ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 15:17                 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-07-23 15:25                   ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 17:27                     ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-07-23 19:17                       ` Dr. Werner Fink
1998-07-23 17:12             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 17:42               ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-23 19:12             ` Dr. Werner Fink
1998-07-27 10:40               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-23 19:51             ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-24 11:21               ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-24 14:25                 ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-24 17:01                   ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-24 21:55                     ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-25 13:05                       ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-07-27 10:54                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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