Re: [PATCH] 2.3.34/pre-2.3.35-3 ramdisk/initrd NOT as a

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@ocston.org)
Sun, 26 Dec 1999 14:23:17 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The hash lookup to take the backend memory in the regular buffer cache is
> very fine. I had the same idea in mind (after I rejected the idea of the
> global vmalloc) but never had the time to implement it :).
Ok, you guys convinced me - I will not continue to be stubborn with my
vmalloc idea and instead try to figure out the buffer cache thing - i.e.
how to not OOM while protecting too many buffers...

Regards,
Tigran.

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