Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:37:36 +0200 |
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Hi,
> - Readahead cache is naturally a fifo - new chunks of readahead > are added at the head and unused readahead is (eventually) > culled from the tail.
do you really want to do this based on pages ? Should you not drop all pages associated with the inode that wasn't touched for the longest time ? If you are streaming dropping all should be no great loss.
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