[PATCH 09/18] xfs: introduced uncached buffer read primitve

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Sep 14 09:56:49 CDT 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:56:08PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
> cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
> primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>




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