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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page cache question
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:03:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4402C05A.2020404@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ae3c140602262345g43e71a2oea7db21c05dd5aba@mail.gmail.com>
Xin Zhao wrote:
> Sorry if this question is dumb.
>
> Linux uses address_space to identify pages in the page cache. An
> address space is often associated with a memory object such as inode.
> That seems to associate the cached page with that inode. My question
> is: if a file is closed and the inode is destroyed, will the cached
> page be removed from page cache immediately? If so, does that mean
Yes. The inode's struct address_space contains the radix tree which
indexes the pagecache pages.
> the file system has to load data from disk again if a user promptly
> open and read the same file again? If not, how does linux determine
> when to evict a cached page? using LRU?
>
Yes they would have to be read again. However in general the inode is
not destroyed after the file is closed -- inodes are cached too.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 7:45 Xin Zhao
2006-02-27 9:03 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-08-05 16:32 Page Cache Question Adnan Khaleel
2007-08-05 17:46 ` Tino Keitel
2007-08-05 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 10:14 ` Helge Hafting
2007-08-14 14:38 ` Eugene Teo
2007-08-05 17:24 Page Cache question Adnan Khaleel
[not found] <fa.ak7dGOAL/3/Q6eQ0zKX2KgaiWdU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-05 17:38 ` Robert Hancock
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