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    SubjectRe: userspace pagecache management tool
    Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:10:49 +0000
    > P__draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> wrote:
    >> Andrew Morton wrote:

    >> If I'm the target
    >> audience for that API then it's broken as I'd mess it up,
    >> or would take too long to get it right.
    >>
    >> Can't we just fix the posix_fadvise() implementation to
    >> only evict pages paged in by the current process.
    >
    > The kernel doesn't have that information.

    It doesn't _keep_ the information. File readahead is done
    in the process context, so we had it originally.

    I agree though that we probably should not bother trying
    to keep that kind of information :)

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