On Monday, Dec 23, 2002, at 12:21 US/Eastern, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:27:43AM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote:
>> So what exaqctly is the point of UBC if you have to manually =
configure
>> how much buffer cache your system will use? Is file system I/O and
>> device buffering now unified, but not much else (and was this this=20
>> case
>> before anyway)? How is this different from the compile-time setting
>> used in 1.5?
>
> The buffer memory is still used to buffer filesystem metadata. For=20
> example,
> on a filesystem with lots of small files you may want to bump the
> buffer cache size to be able to buffer more directories.

Is there any technical reason why we have to pre-allocate buffer cache?=20=

  Can't it be allocated on demand by UVM and/or the VFS and/or the=20
specific FS?  I understand there may be some deadlock issues, but the=20
kernel can allocate a small number of pages for critical needs such as=20=

that.

jf
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John Franklin
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