Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:44:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [NFS] Re: Fix knfsd readahead cache in 2.4.15 | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> writes:
> Sorry for not being clear, but what I was referring to is > making the decision about how to read ahead by what is already > in the page cache. It has a number of benefits that database > people are after as it allows multiple threads using > pread/pwrite to obtain the benefits of readahead.
Ah, OK. Sorry for being so dense ;-)
Yeah, that would be an improvement for knfsd too. The current scheme can only manage readahead for 1 reader per inode. Are there any records of a more detailed discussion of how to go about implementing such a readahead strategy for Linux?
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