Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267186AbTHSJFp (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267402AbTHSJFp (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:05:45 -0400 Received: from aneto.able.es ([212.97.163.22]:58601 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267186AbTHSJFn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:05:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:05:41 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Andrew Morton Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, russo.lutions@verizon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cache limit Message-ID: <20030819090541.GA9038@werewolf.able.es> References: <3F41AA15.1020802@verizon.net> <200308190533.h7J5XoL06419@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20030818232024.20c16d1f.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20030818232024.20c16d1f.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:20:24 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.13 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 28 On 08.19, Andrew Morton wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > > > There was a discussion (and patches) in the middle of 2.5 series > > about O_STREAMING open flag which mean "do not aggressively cache > > this file". Targeted at MP3/video playing, copying large files and such. > > > > I don't know whether it actually was merged. If it was, > > your program can use it. > > It was not. Instead we have fadvise. So it would be appropriate to change Does this work in 2.4 ? If not, any patch flying around ? It would be interesting to have this functionality in 2.4 also so people can start modifying and teting things like DVD readers, rsync, updatedb, grep and so on... I have tested O_STREAMING in 2.4 and it is fine... TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.22-rc2-jam1m (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-1mdk)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/