Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:26:24 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: MM/VM todo list |
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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.
Christoph
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