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Date:      Fri, 30 May 1997 14:14:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk cache challenged by small block sizes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970530141233.390F-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705301242.WAA07183@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >This version fixes a bug (passing an offset instead of a size to
> >vm_page_set_invalid) which was probably the cause of the trap, should work
> >properly for large files (I was using the wrong offset type) and possibly
> >has a more acceptable style(9).
> 
> It seems to fix all the speed problems (except ufs is still slower with
> a larger fs blocksize) and the block leak in ex2tfs.

If you roll vfs_bio.c back to rev 1.115, does it affect the speed of ufs
with 8k blocksize?  I am not sure whether my changes to vfs_bio would
affect that.

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