Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:47:00 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vfs_bio / struct buf Message-ID: <199812222247.OAA18640@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:23:19 PST." <199812222023.MAA05612@apollo.backplane.com>
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> It is also glaringly obvious that there are some hacks in there that > we should probably work to remove. We ought to be able to fix NFS > to not have to use the validoff/validend/dirtyoff/dirtyend junk, and > we ought to be able to clean the system up such that it is possible > to get rid of the bogus_page stuff and we should also be able to fix > the bogus way pages are marked clean in the VFS layer ( rather then being > marked clean in the device layer ). I may take this up post-3.0.1. valid/dirty off/end are there to reduce wire traffic, but aren't strictly necessary. We would not want to remove it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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