Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:54:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, dyson@freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com, smp@freebsd.org, haertel@ichips.intel.com Subject: Re: some questions concerning TLB shootdowns in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199612142154.QAA05435@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199612142112.OAA22198@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 14, 96 02:12:47 pm
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> > This would let us do device/offset as well as vnode/offset based caching > (for instance, hanging all cache buffers for vnodes on a device off the > device vnode). > > I've wanted this for some time, since I am determined that vclean must > die... > Slightly off subject, but I plan to sometime carry the vnode/offset caching to a more generalized scheme that also encompasses device/offset caching. Specifically, device/offset is the same as vnode/offset. This will allow us to cache data without the vnode. However, we will continue to have the advantages of the current vnode/offset scheme. John
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