Re: [PATCH 23/33] readahead: backward prefetching method

Nathan Scott
2006-05-26T19:23:15Z

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Nate Diller wrote:
> On 5/24/06, Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> > Readahead policy for reading backward.
>
> Just curious, who actually does this? I noticed you submitted patches

Nastran does this, and probably other FEA codes. IIRC, iozone
will measure this too - it is very important to some people in
certain scientific arenas.

cheers.

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Nathan