Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:28:09 +0800 | Subject | Re: introduce dm-snap-mv | From | McPacino <> |
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Thank you very very much...
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:14:27PM +0800, McPacino wrote: >> Hi Christoph, >> >> I have to take care the cache problem If using the bio directly. >> BHs can be released by kernel when necessary. >> >> Is there any existing code using bio to read/write metadata >> blocks? How do they handle the timing freeing bios? I really >> wish to learn something form it. > > If you actually need caching just use the pagecache, e.g. > read_mapping_page to read in your data. That completely abstracts > away the underlying block size. > > -- 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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