Re: Small fix in buffer cache

Jan Kara (jack@suse.cz)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:06:18 +0100


> >I think it's cleaner to have those buffers attached...
> The only advantage is for SYSRQ+M. I don't think it worth to make things
> slower for it.
I don't think those slowing will be noticable but I agree that current state
doesn't require it.

> >From a code (not debug) point of view IMHO it would be cleaner to remove
> all the not necessary stuff (so keeping only one dirty lru list for
> kflushd/kupdate).
I think we'll have to have at least one other list with all buffers for things
like invalidate_buffers().

Honza.

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