Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:15:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.29: ramdisk still broken. |
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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > The way I see it, the ramdisk used to work by making it's data persistent > > in the buffer cache. Today, data doesn't live in the buffer cache, it > > lives in the page cache. Ergo, the task at hand is to figure out how > > to make data in the page cache persistent rather than copying that data > > back and forth. > > Another view of the situation may be - ramdisk used to be static but then > started to rely on buffer cache. Now it can no longer rely on buffer > cache. Therefore, shouldn't it go back to being static?
I did that before trying anything else.. took it out of buffer cache all together and used vmalloc instead. Made for a pretty slow ramdisk.
-Mike
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