Re[2]: MMAP vs READ/WRITE

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:58:08 -0300 (BRT)


On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Peter Zaitsev wrote:

> RvR> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
>
> >> So I would say mmap is not really optimized nowdays in Linux and so
> >> read() may be wining in cases it should not. May be read-ahead is
> >> used with read and is not used with mmap.
>
> RvR> Both guesses are correct.
>
> Would you like to say me with rmap patches the situation should be
> different ?

That would be a bit premature since this part of the code
hasn't been touched by -rmap ;)

It is something that still needs fixing, though.

regards,

Rik

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