From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5 page cache improvement idea
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:52:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227115203.M8409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102261829330.5576-100000@today.toronto.redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:46:24PM -0500
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Ben LaHaise wrote:
>
> inode
> -> hash table
> -> struct page, index, mapping
> -> head of b*tree for overflow
Isn't this going to bloat the size of the inode itself horribly,
though? You don't know in advance how much data you'll be caching
against any given inode, so I can only see this working if you use
dynamic hashing (in which case the btree overflow goes away).
Cheers,
Stephen
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-27 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-26 23:46 Ben LaHaise
2001-02-27 0:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-27 2:42 ` Chuck Lever
2001-02-27 2:49 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-27 3:26 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2001-02-27 5:47 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2001-02-27 9:05 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2001-02-27 9:21 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2001-02-27 13:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-02-27 11:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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