Re: Linux-2.4.5

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat May 26 2001 - 10:31:20 EST


On Sat, 26 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Oh, and I still _do_ think that we should rename the silly "async"
> flag as "can_do_io", and then use that to determine whether to do
> SLAB_KERNEL or SLAB_BUFFER. That would make more things able to do IO,
> which in turn should help balance things out.

Agreed, this simplifies things a lot.

regards,

Rik

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