No kernel commits for the next few days

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Feb 3 01:07:15 PST 2006


    I'm working on stage 1/2 of a major buffer cache overhaul.   It involves
    modifying a lot of files so I would appreciate it if no commits were made
    to the kernel for the next couple of days.

    Stage 1 is to implement BIO chaining.  This will significantly clean up
    VOP_STRATEGY and BUF_STRATEGY and allow an I/O to be arbitrarily chained.

    Stage 2 will be to convert all block numbers to 64 bit offsets in the
    BUF/BIO code.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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