From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA30816 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:34:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:48:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Memory management. (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199806252108.WAA16230@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > [...] > > That's right --- it's the old problem of buffering writes through the > buffer cache and reads through the page cache. Do you want me to reply > to this to say we know about it? I already did, and also said that we're working on it. I even said that there probably would be patches in some 6 months, which is a bit pessimistic, considering the fact that Eric wrote he has most of the code ready... Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+