Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 May 2006 20:30:06 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | 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.
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