Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07T18:59:50Z

On Monday 07 October 2002 20:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > [1] We could teach each filesystem how to read ahead across directories, or
> > we could teach the vfs how to do physical readahead. Choose your poison.
>
> Devices do physical readahead, and it works nicely.

Devices have a few MB of readahead cache, the kernel can have thousands of
times as much.

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Daniel