Re: [patch 1/13] minimal rmap

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:40:05 -0700


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> ...
> I think Andrew also mentioned he sees a lot of buffers sitting around
> in the morning. His strip-buffers-immediately hack would kill that
> one dead.

Nope. It was all inodes and dentries.

`buffermem' accounting went away in 2.5 altogether. And the
zillions-of-buffer_heads problems should be greatly improved
because a) they're half the size of 2.4's bhs and b) we
no longer attach buffer_heads for reads.

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