Re: [PATCH 23/33] readahead: backward prefetching method

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Nate Diller wrote:
> On 5/24/06, Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Readahead policy for reading backward.
> 
> Just curious, who actually does this?  I noticed you submitted patches

Nastran does this, and probably other FEA codes.  IIRC, iozone
will measure this too - it is very important to some people in
certain scientific arenas.

cheers.

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Nathan
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