From 95d402f057f2e208e4631893f6cd4a59c7c05e41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:19:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] dm: add bufio The dm-bufio interface allows you to do cached I/O on devices, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing delayed writes. We don't use buffer cache or page cache already present in the kernel, because: * we need to handle block sizes larger than a page * we can't allocate memory to perform reads or we'd have deadlocks Currently, when a cache is required, we limit its size to a fraction of available memory. Usage can be viewed and changed in /sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/ . The first user is thin provisioning, but more dm users are planned. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- Reading git-format-patch failed