Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:05:15 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] generic IO write clustering |
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:00:24PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > True. But you have to go through ext2_get_branch (under the big kernel > > lock) - if we can do only one logical->physical block translations, > > why doing it multiple times? > > You dont. If the metadata is cached and uptodate there is no need to call > get_block().
Ups. You are right for the stock tree - I was only looking at my kio tree, where it can't be cached due to the lack of buffer-cache usage...
Christoph
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