Re: Random file I/O regressions in 2.6
From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 03:29:35 EST
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> That would cause the kernel to perform lots of pointless pagecache lookups
> when the file is already 100% cached.
well surely the read itself will do those AGAIN anyway, so in the fully
cached case this is just warming up the cpu cache ;) (and thus really
cheap as nett cost I suspect)
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