Re: Lockless page cache test results

[Christoph Lameter]

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.

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