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
To the best I know, both actually reside in page cache. in <=2.2.x,
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the difference between Page cache and Buffer cache?
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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