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"David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> ,in message <199703202353.SAA0102
6@jenolan.caipgeneral>, wrote:

> I brought up this with Linus once, the conversation was in reference
> to how we thought we could do on database benchmarks etc. which is
> essentially all over raw block devices these days. (which we both
> agreed was entirely stupid, the kernel should be doing buffer caching,
> not some silly Oracle disk I/O layer)

Not necessarily. A well-designed database probably has a better idea of
its future disk usage pattern than the kernel does. Remember, LRU is just an
approximation (and sometimes a very poor one) to the optimal FFU.

---
Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/

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