From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses)
Date: 09 Oct 2002 18:43:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034203433.794.152.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021009222349.GA2353@werewolf.able.es>
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 18:23, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> But I did the test with an addition: read a 1Gb file and print an '*'
> after every 10M. Without O_STREAMING, when memory fills, the 'progress
> bar' stalls for a few seconds while pages are sent to disk.
> So the patch also favours a constant sustained rate of read from the
> disk. Very interesting for things like video edition and so on.
> I like it ;).
This is 100% the point of the patch and hopefully the point I proved
when I first posted it.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-09 22:23 More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses) J.A. Magallon
2002-10-09 22:43 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-10 3:40 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 14:39 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-10 18:01 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 22:50 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-10 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-11 2:04 ` Mark Mielke
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2002-10-11 8:13 Samium Gromoff
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