Re: Lockless page cache test results

Christoph Lameter
2006-04-26T18:48:40Z

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > A real application scenario may be an application that has lots of threads
> > that are streaming data through multiple different disk channels (that
> > are able to transfer data simultanouesly. e.g. connected to different
> > nodes in a NUMA system) into the same address space.
> >
> > Something like the above is fairly typical for multimedia filters
> > processing large amounts of data.
>
> >From the same file?

Reading sections of the same file on multiple processors. This is done in
order to obtain higher read performance than possible with single threaded
reading.