Re: [highmem bug report against -test5 and -test6] Re: [PATCH] Re: simple FS application that hangs 2.4-test5, mem mgmt problem or FS buffer cache mgmt problem? (fwd)

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:29:27AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it can and does lose them - but only all of them. Aging OTOH is a per-bh
> thing, this kind of granularity is simply not present in the current
> page->buffers handling. This is all i wanted to mention. Not unsolvable,

I'm pretty sure it doesn't worth the per-bh thing. And even if it would make
any difference with a 1k fs for good performance 4k blksize is necessary anyway
for other reasons.

Andrea
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