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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:38:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412E2E0D.8040401@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412E2058.60302@rtlogic.com>

David Rolenc wrote:

> I am trying to get O_STREAMING (Robert Love patch for 2.4) behavior in 
> 2.6 and just a glance at fadvise.c suggests that POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is 
> not implemented any differently than POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED. Am I missing 
> something?  I want to read data from disk with readahead and drop the 
> data from the page cache as soon as I am done with it. Do I have to 
> call fadvise with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED after every read?

And will this work over nfs?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 17:39 POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7 David Rolenc
2004-08-26 18:17 ` Robert Love
2004-08-26 19:23   ` David Rolenc
2004-08-26 18:38 ` David Greaves [this message]
2004-08-26 19:11   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-27  8:25     ` David Greaves
2004-08-27 17:21       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-27 17:37       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-26 19:11   ` David Rolenc

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