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From: David Rolenc <drolenc@rtlogic.com>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:11:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412E35F2.30501@rtlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412E2E0D.8040401@dgreaves.com>

David Greaves wrote:

> David Rolenc wrote:
>
>> I am trying to get O_STREAMING (Robert Love patch for 2.4) behavior 
>> in 2.6 and just a glance at fadvise.c suggests that 
>> POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is not implemented any differently than 
>> POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED. Am I missing something?  I want to read data 
>> from disk with readahead and drop the data from the page cache as 
>> soon as I am done with it. Do I have to call fadvise with 
>> POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED after every read?
>
>
> And will this work over nfs?

The system will not be using nfs at all.

>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 17:39 POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE and O_STREAMING behavior in 2.6.7 David Rolenc
2004-08-26 18:17 ` Robert Love
2004-08-26 19:23   ` David Rolenc
2004-08-26 18:38 ` David Greaves
2004-08-26 19:11   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-27  8:25     ` David Greaves
2004-08-27 17:21       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-27 17:37       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-08-26 19:11   ` David Rolenc [this message]

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