HI

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the difference between Page cache and Buffer cache?

To the best I know, both actually reside in page cache. in <=2.2.x,
they are separated and this leads to synchronization headache.


Buffer cache handles things like icache, dcache etc while page cache
handle page based reading like read()/write() of block devices.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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