From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: Lockless page cache test results In-Reply-To: <20060426111054.2b4f1736.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060426135310.GB5083@suse.de> <20060426095511.0cc7a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060426174235.GC5002@suse.de> <20060426111054.2b4f1736.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK. That doesn't sound like something which a real application is likely > to do ;) A real application scenario may be an application that has lots of threads that are streaming data through multiple different disk channels (that are able to transfer data simultanouesly. e.g. connected to different nodes in a NUMA system) into the same address space. Something like the above is fairly typical for multimedia filters processing large amounts of data. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org