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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:20:02 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O
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Mark Mielke wrote:
>     2) Pages should not be candidates for dropping if the pages belong
>        to the first few pages of a file. (First = 2? 4? 8?) The theory
>        being, that somebody could begin reading the file again from the
>        beginning.

This breaks the benefit of using O_STREAMING to read a lot of small
files once, as you might do when grepping the kernel tree for example.

-- Jamie
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