Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. | From | Shawn Starr <> | Date | 23 Jan 2002 00:26:33 -0500 |
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The VM is busy with other tasks so why not have a daemon handle pages delegated from the VM? Having a pagebuf daemon would allow for delay writes and allow for perhaps readahead buffering of data having theses would take some pressure off of the VM no?
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 18:37, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 22 Jan 2002, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > The only functionality added to the kernel would be a a interface for > > filesystems to share it would basically create kpagebuf_* functions. > > What would these things achieve ? > > It would be nice if you could give us a quick explanation of > what exactly kpagebufd is supposed to do, if only so I can > keep that in mind while working on the VM ;) > > Rik > -- > "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" > -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > - > 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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