Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:07:01 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: mmap() is slower than read() on SCSI/IDE on 2.0 and 2.1 |
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On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 12:28:28PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> 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.
very common != all.
I'm interested in trying your scheme out -- if indeed it does work and we have no legitimate reason to use madvise, then that is of course very desirable (why add syscalls when we don't need them?)
-cw
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