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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise: perform WILLNEED readahead in a workqueue
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:34:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121215223448.08272fd5@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121215005448.GA7698@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:54:48 +0000
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

> Applications streaming large files may want to reduce disk spinups and
> I/O latency by performing large amounts of readahead up front


How does it compare benchmark wise with a user thread or using the
readahead() call ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-15 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-15  0:54 Eric Wong
2012-12-15 22:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-12-16  0:25   ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16  3:03     ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  3:35       ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16  4:15         ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  5:23           ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16 21:31             ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  8:48           ` Zheng Liu
2012-12-16  2:45 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  3:04   ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16  3:09     ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16  3:36     ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  3:59       ` Eric Wong
2012-12-16  4:26         ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-16  5:17           ` Eric Wong
2013-02-22 16:45   ` Phillip Susi
2013-02-22 21:13     ` Eric Wong

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