Re: benchmarks of O_STREAMING in 2.5

[Padraig Brady]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:53, Robert Love wrote:
> 
>>I gave the O_STREAMING in Andrew's 2.5-mm tree the treatment..
>>
>>Short summary: It works.
>>
>>The streaming read test in the following benchmarks is simply a read()
>>in 64KB byte chunks of an 800MB file.
> 
> All you now need to do is make it work with an API thats usable by the
> other 99% of real world apps, is extensible and sensible ways and
> therefore can be used.

I'm confused. Isn't this just an O_STREAM flag on open/fcntl ?
How could it be simpler? I suppose the VM could do better than
it currently does automatically but there is no harm in the app
giving a hint like this thus allowing stuff to be dropped from
the cache more aggresively?

Pádraig.