From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:54:02 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Another wish item for your TODO list... Message-ID: <20001023175402.B2772@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, Just a quick thought --- at some point it would be good if we could add logic to the core VM so that for sequentially accessed files, reclaiming any page of the file from cache would evict the _whole_ of the file from cache. For large files, we're not going to try to cache the whole thing anyway. For small files, reading the whole file back in later isn't much more expensive than reading back a few fragments if the rest still happens to be in cache. Cheers, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/