Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > If that is the case, then I think we should drop the whole reference
> > counting system and have the accessor functions just do a vm_map and
> > vm_unmap as required.
> 
> Surely you don't want ext2_getblk to vm_map/vm_unmap 1024 times the
> same single indirect block for a 4M file when this file is
> read. (ext2_getblk is called for each block when file is read.)

Neal is talking about what to do when the kernel says to page out, I
think. 



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