From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm5 References: <20030123195044.47c51d39.akpm@digeo.com> <946253340.1043406208@[192.168.100.5]> <20030124031632.7e28055f.akpm@digeo.com> From: Alex Tomas Date: 24 Jan 2003 14:23:58 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20030124031632.7e28055f.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes: AM> But writes are completely different. There is no dependency AM> between them and at any point in time we know where on-disk a lot AM> of writes will be placed. We don't know that for reads, which is AM> why we need to twiddle thumbs until the application or filesystem AM> makes up its mind. it's significant that application doesn't want to wait read completion long and doesn't wait for write completion in most cases. -- 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-mm.org/