Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:12:27 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: clustering page-ins |
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On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 03:04:25PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > Since each mapping has its own vm_area, I don't see the problem. > > Do you want different mappers to share read-ahead info? > > yes, since they are sharing the same file in the same page cache it > would be silly to trigger read-ahead needlessly, even if it finds all the > pages already in the page cache.
Does that mean we could get away with passing an inode rather than a filp to i_op->readpage()? That makes some of my code for the NTFS driver a little tidier.
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