Messages in this thread | | | From | Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: mmap() is slower than read() on SCSI/IDE on 2.0 and 2.1 | Date | 16 Dec 1998 12:52:17 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> writes: > The point is that there are many very common access patterns which the > O/S can, and should, recognise and optimise without the user needing to > tell us.
And it's often hard for the user to describe the patterns anyway (apart from trivial cases like sequential and random)
Stefan
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