Re: Document about page and buffer cache.

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Yeh I think we do have such unified approach now.The following document
provides some initial pointers on where page & buffer caches were used
and how they can be _unified_ to avoid double copying.

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/silvers/silvers_html/

Regards,
Sushil

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

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