Andrew Morton

A 43 year-old English-born Aussie, Andrew Morton has worked on a wide range of kernel components, including ext3 on 2.4 and the low-latency patch. Andrew Morton will be the maintainer for the Linux 2.6 kernel and he recently joined The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) along with Linux Torvalds. Previously Andrew was a member of the System Software group at Digeo, Inc.

Andrew Morton's talk is titled "There is no buffercache"

An overview of the Linux pagecache, VFS, filesystem and VM nexus.

The operation of and interworking between:

• The pagecache
• The page LRU
• The buffer layer
• Filesystems
• Page reclaim
• Inode and dentry cache reclaim
• The 2.4 buffer LRU: why it was bad, and how it died
• The 2.6 writeback design, and how the VFS connects to the new block BIO layer
• What's missing, and what needs to be done in 2.7

Hosted By: