Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:41:53 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The other part of the bio rewrite has been to get rid of another coupling: > the coupling between "struct buffer_head" (which is used for a limited > kind of memory management by a number of filesystems) and the act of > actually just doing IO. > > I used to think that we could just relegate "struct buffer_head" to _be_ > the IO entity, but it turns out to be much easier to just split off the IO > part, which is why you now have a separate "bio" structure for the block > IO part, and the buffer_head stuff uses that to get the work done. >
So... would it be correct to say that there won't be any large changes to the buffer_head concept in 2.5? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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