Re: [PATCH] VFS: Pagecache usage optimization on pagesize!=blocksize environment

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 26-05-08 16:20:10, Hisashi Hifumi wrote:
> 
> >  But I'm slightly confused that the patch helps because I've always
> >thought that mpage_readpage() (which is what we end up calling from
> >do_generic_mapping_read()) always reads the whole page. Thus either all
> >buffers in the page or none of them are uptodate... So what do I miss
> >here?
> >
> >								Honza
> 
> On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block. So if a page has multiple 
> buffers, buffers can be uptodate partially especially under random write workloads.
> See __block_prepare_write and __block_commit_write.
  Ah, I see. Thanks for explanation.

									Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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