From: "saeed bishara" <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: read-ahead in NFS server
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:38:57 +0200
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>
> I bet
>         TCP + fewer revalidations + greater local pagecache activity
> uses less cpu power than
>         UDP + revalidations + rx/tx network activity
what do you mean by revalidations?
the workload of the client going to be large sequential IO's, so does
the local pagecache is necessary for this case?

saeed