Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]

Hans Reiser
2003-02-10T12:51:14Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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>>Is it true that there is no manpage available anywhere for fadvise?
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>It's pretty simple.
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>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/posix_fadvise.html
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>It's also basically unimplementable without the radix tree, so I don't how
>other systems can be doing it. Maybe they just lock up for a day when
>someone does fadvise64(fd, 0, -1, FADV_DONTNEED) ;)
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Andrew, don't you think you should write a linux manpage and/or other
documentation when you add system calls like fadvise to linux? Also,
Andrew, your measurements would be a lot more understandable if you did
not use programs written by you and not present in any linux distro (do
I understand that correctly?) without defining what they do. Yes? ;-)

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Hans