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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:42:20 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK]
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Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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> Is it true that there is no manpage available anywhere for fadvise?
> 

It's pretty simple.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/posix_fadvise.html

It's also basically unimplementable without the radix tree, so I don't how
other systems can be doing it.  Maybe they just lock up for a day when
someone does fadvise64(fd, 0, -1, FADV_DONTNEED) ;)

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