From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>,
Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_STREAMING has insufficient info - how about fadvise() ?
Date: 10 Oct 2002 17:08:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034266128.7042.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DA59DED.6167C13B@digeo.com>
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> In 2.5, the radix tree gang lookup thing will do this search in O(zilch).
>
> The other problem with fadvise is writebehind - there are up to
> 30 seconds' worth of dirty pages behind the application's write
> cursor which fadvise wouldn't be able to do anything with. So
> the application would end up running fadvise(offset=0, length=current-pos)
> all the time. Which is equivalent to O_STREAMING.
The write side is actually not very interesting. We can do that already
with fsync in a thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-10 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 2:38 [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O Robert Love
2002-10-08 10:42 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-08 18:08 ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 18:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 18:49 ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 19:05 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 19:17 ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-09 14:14 ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-09 16:30 ` kernel
2002-10-08 19:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 19:59 ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 20:01 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-09 8:33 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09 8:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-09 10:55 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09 17:05 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-09 19:36 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09 22:24 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-09 23:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-10 3:07 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 10:55 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10 17:50 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 3:29 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10 3:37 ` Robert Love
2002-10-10 13:39 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 22:50 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-10 22:58 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-11 8:26 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-11 8:32 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10 8:33 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 9:10 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10 9:38 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 10:40 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-10-10 11:01 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10 12:29 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-10 13:17 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 22:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-11 8:13 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 11:38 ` O_STREAMING has insufficient info - how about fadvise() ? Alan Cox
2002-10-10 11:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10 15:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 16:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-10 16:49 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-10-10 15:37 ` [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O Gerhard Mack
2002-10-10 22:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-11 2:14 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-10-11 8:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-10 9:14 ` David Lang
2002-10-10 14:51 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-08 19:53 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-10-08 19:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 20:34 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-10-08 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 20:37 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-09 11:53 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-09 14:10 ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-09 14:14 ` Robert Love
2002-10-09 14:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-09 15:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-09 23:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-09 23:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-10 0:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-10 2:39 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10 10:33 ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-10 20:00 ` Erik Andersen
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