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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:37:56 -0700
From: "Nate Diller" <nate.diller@gmail.com>
To: "Wu Fengguang" <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/33] readahead: backward prefetching method
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 5/24/06, Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> Readahead policy for reading backward.

Just curious, who actually does this?  I noticed you submitted patches
to do profiling of actual read loads, so this must be based on data
you've seen.  Could you include a comment in the actual code relating
to the loads that it affects?

thanks

NATE
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