Hi All, I have a newbie question on disk/filesystem caches, so please bear with me! :) * Is disk cache the same as filesystem cache? Or there's nothing like a filesysten cache and all disk I/O, irrespective of what FS is being accessed, is cached in a "disk cache"? * Is this caching done at the VFS layer? * Can the location of a disk cache be changed, i.e instead of caching it in memory (main RAM) can it be made to cache the files in a specific device? To give some idea on why I'm asking these questions, I'll explain my problem a little here (I myself have only started working on it so I don't have all the details worked out yet). I'm working on a special device which sits across the PCIe bus and accesses files (or it's data) and does some processing with it. It transmits this data out via a special high-speed link to another device (thats some black hole for me right now). The transmit speed is in the 300-400 Gbps range. This device also a lot of local memory, which is ~ 80GB.The PCIe interface however supports transfer speeds which are much lower, i.e in the 5-8 Gbps range. In order to reduce latency in transmitting this content, I was thinking if there's a way to make the disk cache content available in this device's local memory. Instead of writing a custom module for that, I was wondering if there already exists a way in the kernel where a cache device can be specified and the kernel uses that to store the cached file content? Any ideas on making the cached content available inside the device are welcome! :) Regards, -mandeep