| Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:33:09 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching |
| |
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:18:26 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> Add the backwards prefetching feature. It's pretty simple if we don't > support async prefetching and interleaved reads.
Well OK, but I wonder how many applications out there read files in reverse order. Is it common enough to bother special-casing in the kernel like this?
|