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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK]
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> what is this fadvise doing?

Invoking fadvise64().  Dropping the pagecache.
 
> yes, and anticipatory scheduler isn't going to fix it. furthmore with
> IDE the max merging is 64k so you can see little of the whole picture.

124k.  (Or is it 128k now?)

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