[Linux-cachefs] (no subject)

[Peter Staubach]

gaurav wrote:
> thats rite but wen all processes have different address spaces so cant we
> say that each process have duplicated copy of same data?
>

Of course all of the processes have a copy of the same data.  The data
is copied, from the page cache, into a buffer which is contained in the
address space of the process.  This buffer is allocated by the process,
not by the operating system.

The operating system maintains a single copy of the data in its page
cache, no matter how many processes are accessing the data and if it
has enough free memory to do so.

       ps