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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-27 21:47:25 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-27 21:47:25 +0100
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hurd/io_path: Link to Linux kernel design patterns - part 3 (2009-06-22) by Neil Brown.
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="I/O Path"]]
+
# read
@@ -38,3 +41,12 @@ is included in the section entitled
* ext2fs eventually finishes the data_request() function, the kernel installs
the page into the process that got a fault.
+
+
+# Documentation
+
+ * In [*Linux kernel design patterns - part
+ 3*](http://lwn.net/Articles/336262/) (2009-06-22), Neil Brown gives a
+ nice overview of the related layering inside the Linux kernel,
+ including the VFS layer, page cache and directory entry cache
+ (dcache).