Re: New buffer/cache small report and questions

Ricardo Galli Granada (gallir@atlas-iap.es)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:52:36 +0200 (MEST)


On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >My question is, are the changes going to be back ported to 2.2.x?
>
> Not a chance in hell.

Understood.

> But I hope that we can make 2.4.x much faster than we did 2.2.x, ie on
> the "late fall" timeframe rather than "two years from now".

We will have fun runnin 2.3.x during the summer.

Just another question:

It was pointed out that the new page cache only stores data files. Does
it mean that executable and swapped pages are managed in another
different way?

--
Ricardo Galli

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