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Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 20:30:06 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/33] readahead: backward prefetching method
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On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:22:43AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Nate Diller wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Nastran does this, and probably other FEA codes.  IIRC, iozone
> will measure this too - it is very important to some people in
> certain scientific arenas.

Thanks.

It makes sense to have a list of use cases for the
less-common-but-still-important access patterns.

Cheers,
Wu
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