HI On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is the difference between Page cache and Buffer cache? To the best I know, both actually reside in page cache. in <=2.2.x, they are separated and this leads to synchronization headache. Buffer cache handles things like icache, dcache etc while page cache handle page based reading like read()/write() of block devices. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
