Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:20:02 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O |
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Mark Mielke wrote: > 2) Pages should not be candidates for dropping if the pages belong > to the first few pages of a file. (First = 2? 4? 8?) The theory > being, that somebody could begin reading the file again from the > beginning.
This breaks the benefit of using O_STREAMING to read a lot of small files once, as you might do when grepping the kernel tree for example.
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