Re: clustering page-ins

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:10:26 +0200


Chuck Lever wrote:
> > Do you want different mappers to share read-ahead info?
>
> yes, since they are sharing the same file in the same page cache it
> would be silly to trigger read-ahead needlessly, even if it finds all the
> pages already in the page cache.

Isn't that a contradication? Seems to me that sharing read-ahead info
would _cause_ triggering of needless read-aheads.

-- Jamie

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