On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:13:33 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> The sooner we kill buffer heads and use submit_bio(), the better :)
A buffer_head is a caching entity and a bio is an IO container. They're
quite separate concepts.
A buffer_head is the kernel's sole abstraction of a disk block.
Filesystems use disk blocks a lot, and they need such an abstraction.
If one was to replace buffer_heads with direct-to-BIO operations then the
filesytem would need to internally track the mapping from
page+offset+length -> disk block
and it would need to internally track the page+offset+length<->disk block
coherency state and it would need to internally perform serialisation of
access to each page+offset+length hunk of pagecache and etc and etc and
etc. Create a data structure with which to do all that and voila,
buffer_heads reinvented.
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