From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MM/VM todo list
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:27:38 -0200 (BRDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101051927040.1295-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010105222624.A11770@caldera.de>
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Not right now, no. But if you know what is possible
(and planned) with the kiobuf layer, you should think
twice about this idea...
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-05 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-05 17:14 Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 15:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 17:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 16:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:20 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:27 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-01-05 21:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-05 21:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-05 17:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-08 17:31 ` afei
2001-01-08 17:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 20:23 ` Rasmus Andersen
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