Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve documentation of FADV_DONTNEED behaviour

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Partial page discard requests are ignored and the documentation on why this
> is correct behaviour sucks. A readahead patch looked like a "regression" to
> a random IO storage benchmark because posix_fadvise() was used incorrectly
> to force IO requests to go to disk. In reality, the benchmark sucked but
> it was non-obvious why. Patch 1 updates the kernel comment in case someone
> "fixes" either readahead or fadvise for inappropriate reasons. Patch 2
> updates the relevant man page on the rough off chance that application
> developers do not read kernel source comments.

It feels like that last sentence should have made LWN quote of the week :-/.

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