On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:20 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> Then do what we do for FADV_SEQUENTIAL. With that advice, we double the
> readahead window. We're already doing readahead, but we do a lot more
> when we have the advice. NOREUSE should put much greater pressure on
> the vm to drop these pages quickly, or perhaps simply eliminate the
> heuristic evaluation of the access pattern and short-circuit straight to
> dropping the pages.
>
> We should be encouraging application writers to actually use things like
> fadvise when they can tune things more intelligently than kernel
> heuristics can.
I like this, I'll see what I can do.. :-)
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