Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:48:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Lockless page cache test results |
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A real application scenario may be an application that has lots of threads > > that are streaming data through multiple different disk channels (that > > are able to transfer data simultanouesly. e.g. connected to different > > nodes in a NUMA system) into the same address space. > > > > Something like the above is fairly typical for multimedia filters > > processing large amounts of data. > > >From the same file?
Reading sections of the same file on multiple processors. This is done in order to obtain higher read performance than possible with single threaded reading.
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