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SubjectRe: userspace pagecache management tool
Andrew Morton wrote:
> I've uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/pagecache-management/ a
> little tool which permits the management of the pagecache usage of
> arbitrary applications. Effectively it prevents the targetted application
> from using any pagecache at all.

Cool, Kinda like noca?
http://kernel.umbrella.ro/vm/
Though I could easily read your code,
but couldn't immediately figure out what noca was doing.

I used posix_fadvise in an app I did recently:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/
There is a stream_data() func there that does:

read(src)
write(dst)
posix_fadvise(src)
posix_fadvise(dst)

for performance I found I needed to do it in that order
so that any readahead done with the read(src)
was not thrown away by the posix_fadvise(src).
In addition to the order, one must be careful
to throw away only what you've actually written.

I'm not sure your lib gives enough control over this,
as you essentially do:

posix_fadvise(src)
read(src)
posix_fadvise(dst)
write(dst)

cheers,
Pádraig.
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