From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:55 +0000 Message-ID: <4ED50A63.1010805@draigBrady.com> References: <20111129130900.628549879@intel.com> <20111129131456.925952168@intel.com> <20111129153552.GP5635@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Li Shaohua , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Jan Kara Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111129153552.GP5635@quack.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 11/29/2011 03:35 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > Someone already mentioned this earlier and I don't think I've seen a > response: Do you have a realistic usecase for this? I don't think I've = ever > seen an application reading file backwards... tac, tail -n$large, ... cheers, P=E1draig. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter= .ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org