From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, russo.lutions@verizon.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cache limit
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:05:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819090541.GA9038@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818232024.20c16d1f.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:20:24 +0200
On 08.19, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> wrote:
> >
> > There was a discussion (and patches) in the middle of 2.5 series
> > about O_STREAMING open flag which mean "do not aggressively cache
> > this file". Targeted at MP3/video playing, copying large files and such.
> >
> > I don't know whether it actually was merged. If it was,
> > your program can use it.
>
> It was not. Instead we have fadvise. So it would be appropriate to change
Does this work in 2.4 ?
If not, any patch flying around ?
It would be interesting to have this functionality in 2.4 also so
people can start modifying and teting things like DVD readers, rsync,
updatedb, grep and so on...
I have tested O_STREAMING in 2.4 and it is fine...
TIA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 4:39 cache limit Anthony R.
2003-08-19 4:57 ` Nuno Silva
2003-08-19 5:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 9:05 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2003-08-19 9:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 9:28 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-08-19 9:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 13:32 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-19 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-19 14:28 ` Anthony R.
2003-08-19 18:26 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19 5:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-21 0:49 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-21 23:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-25 2:45 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-25 4:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-25 22:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-26 9:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 9:36 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 9:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 11:14 ` Takao Indoh
2003-08-27 11:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 10:52 ` Takao Indoh
2003-09-02 11:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-02 17:21 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 16:01 ` Joseph Malicki
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2003-08-21 9:52 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-25 7:17 ` Takao Indoh
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2003-08-26 10:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 17:46 ` Mike Fedyk
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2003-08-26 19:08 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-26 19:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 10:21 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-27 11:07 ` Nick Piggin
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2003-08-27 16:02 ` YoshiyaETO
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2003-08-27 16:03 Joseph Malicki
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