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I?m trying to understand the inner workings of the adaptive replacement cache (arc). I see there are arc_bufs and arc_buf_hdrs. Each arc_buf_hdr points to an arc_buf_t. The arc_buf_t is really one entry in a list of arc_buf_t entries. The multiple entries are accessed through the arc_buf_t?s b_next member. Why does the arc_buf_hdr point to a list of arc_buf_ts and not just one arc_buf_t, i.e., how and wh...