On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:20 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Then do what we do for FADV_SEQUENTIAL. With that advice, we double the > readahead window. We're already doing readahead, but we do a lot more > when we have the advice. NOREUSE should put much greater pressure on > the vm to drop these pages quickly, or perhaps simply eliminate the > heuristic evaluation of the access pattern and short-circuit straight to > dropping the pages. > > We should be encouraging application writers to actually use things like > fadvise when they can tune things more intelligently than kernel > heuristics can.
I like this, I'll see what I can do.. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
