Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 06:53:33 EST

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On Tuesday 08 October 2002 04:38, Robert Love wrote:
> Attached patch implements an O_STREAMING file I/O flag which enables
> manual drop-behind of pages.
>
> If the file has O_STREAMING set then the user has explicitly said "this
> is streaming data, I know I will not revisit this, do not cache
> anything". So we drop pages from the pagecache before our current
> index. We have to fiddle a bit to get writes working since we do
> write-behind but the logic is there and it works.

Great ;-)
This is the nice way of doing what the akpm-patch did for me a while ago.

roy

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