From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 22 14:46:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14117 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14054 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18640; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:47:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812222247.OAA18640@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vfs_bio / struct buf In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:23:19 PST." <199812222023.MAA05612@apollo.backplane.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:47:00 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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