On 7/9/07, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
Use the read-ahead code to provide hints to page reclaim.
This patch has the potential to solve the streaming-IO trashes my
desktop problem.
It tries to aggressively reclaim pages that were loaded in a strong
sequential pattern and have been consumed. Thereby limiting the damage
to the current resident set.
Interesting...
Would it make sense to tie this into (finally) making
POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE something more than a noop?
Tim
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