Re: [PATCH] fadvise: perform WILLNEED readahead in a workqueue

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:54:48 +0000
Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Applications streaming large files may want to reduce disk spinups and
> I/O latency by performing large amounts of readahead up front


How does it compare benchmark wise with a user thread or using the
readahead() call ?
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