Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750829AbVJSEUG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbVJSEUG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:06 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:9866 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750829AbVJSEUE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:04 -0400 Subject: Re: large files unnecessary trashing filesystem cache? From: Lee Revell To: Guido Fiala Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200510182201.11241.gfiala@s.netic.de> References: <200510182201.11241.gfiala@s.netic.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:10:00 -0400 Message-Id: <1129695001.8910.57.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 16 On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:01 +0200, Guido Fiala wrote: > Of course one could always implement f_advise-calls in all > applications Um, this seems like the obvious answer. The application doing the read KNOWS it's a streaming read, while the best the kernel can do is guess. You don't really make much of a case that fadvise can't do the job. Lee - 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/