On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 07:11 -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to find out the difference between > generic_file_read and do_sync_read. The thing I have > got upto now is that generic_file_read uses the page > cache for doing read therefore we must implement > readpage function with generic_file_read. > > On the other hand do_sync_read uses aio_read function > for doing read. I want a little bit explanation about > the difference b/w these two. There really isn't too much difference between the two. There is a set of patches in the -mm kernel that cleans up some of the duplicity and removes generic_file_read completely: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115214448319794&w=2 Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
