Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:41:07 -0400 | From | Carl Mummert <> |
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>This is done already and automatically -- it's called readahead. >The kernel detects when you're reading sequentially and then >reads ahead. > >We don't do it on mmaped areas yet though.
Page faults occur for 4k blocks, which provides readahead for sequential access of memory regions.
Carl
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