Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: mmap() is slower than read() on SCSI/IDE on 2.0 and 2.1 | Date | 15 Dec 1998 07:39:57 +0100 |
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"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> writes: > It will be pretty simple to add a soft-page-fault fencepost to the page > cache to allow us to prime the next readahead chunk before we have > finished accessing the current one in the case of sequential access, > which will allow us to sustain even faster sequential IO rates on fast > disks. > Do it. I'd like to find out if that makes a difference. (I think it would.)
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