From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Oct 3 10:10:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08601 for fs-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08588; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA26561; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:10:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:10:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: dyson@freebsd.org cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, bde@zeta.org.au, heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nbuf in buffer cache In-Reply-To: <199610031607.LAA00894@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, John Dyson wrote: > > > > It would be nice if instead of marking the buffer for a later commit, the > > underlying pages could be marked instead. This would be tricky to fit > > into the existing vnode system though. > > > We can do that in the current vfs_bio, modulo some bugs. I probably > won't get to it until the NEXT big release -- my 2.2/3.0 plate is so full, > that it is spilling over (mixed metaphor, I think :-)). There's no rush. The performance within the buffer metaphor is fine most of the time. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426