Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: unified page and buffer cache? | From | Phillip Susi <> | Date | Fri, 07 May 2010 20:50:53 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 12:30 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > That would be possible, but would waste memory space. But we've all > got gigabytes of ram these days, maybe nobody cares.
Why would it waste memory space? Either way it's in some memory mapping somewhere. It's just a matter of what file it is associated with? The inode of the directory, or the underlying block device?
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