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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--lkml@baldauf.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Reiserfs List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Heuristic readahead for filesystems
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:30:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209112030.27269.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D7F83BC.5DF306A@baldauf.org>


> In theory, this also could be implemented explicitly if the application
> could tell the kernel "I'm going to read these 100 files in the very
> near future, please make them ready for me". But wait, maybe the
> application can do this (for regular files, not for directory entries
> and stat() data): Could it be efficient if the application used
> open(file,O_NONBLOCK) for the next 100 files and subsequent read()s on
> each of the returned filedescriptors?

What do you want to trigger the reading ahead, open() or read() ?
Please correct me, if I am wrong, but wouldn't read() block ?

Aio should be able to do it. But even that want help you with the stat data.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-11 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-11 15:42 Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 16:33 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-09-11 17:03   ` jdow
2002-09-11 17:20     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-09-11 17:51       ` jdow
2002-09-11 17:16   ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-11 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-11 17:20   ` Oliver Neukum
2002-09-11 17:56   ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 18:30     ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2002-09-11 18:43       ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-11 19:04         ` Oliver Neukum
2002-09-11 19:21           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-12  0:45             ` jw schultz
2002-09-12  1:58               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 11:41               ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-12 13:35                 ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 21:33                 ` jdow
2002-09-16 12:52                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-17  1:45                     ` jdow
2002-09-17 10:37                       ` jbradford
2002-09-17  5:19                     ` jdow
2002-09-12 12:41               ` Jesse Pollard
2002-09-11 19:03   ` Tomas Szepe

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