From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:26:24 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list Message-ID: <20010105222624.A11770@caldera.de> References: <20010105221326.A10112@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO. > > > > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM. > > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs > > in the filesystem IO... > > Could be interesting ... but is it generalised enough to > also work with eg. network IO ? No other then filesystem IO (page/buffercache) is actively tied to the VM, so there should be no problems. Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/