Re: [PATCH] fs: add fincore(2) (mincore(2) for file descriptors)

[Steve VanDeBogart]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:42:35 -0800 (PST) Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Is it likely that these changes to SQLite and Gimp would be merged into
> > > the upstream applications?
> >
> > Changes to the GIMP fit nicely into the code structure, so it's feasible
> > to push this kind of optimization upstream.  The changes in SQLite are
> > a bit more focused on the benchmark, but a more general approach is not
> > conceptually difficult.  SQLite may not want the added complexity, but
> > other database may be interested in the performance improvement.
> >
> > Of course, these kernel changes are needed before any application can
> > optimize its IO as we did with libprefetch.
>
> That didn't really answer my question.
>
> If there's someone signed up and motivated to do the hard work of
> getting these changes integrated into the upstream applications then
> that makes us more interested.  If, however it was some weekend
> proof-of-concept hack which shortly dies an instadeath then...  meh,
> not so much.

Sorry I misunderstood.  The maintainer of GraphicsMagick has already
contacted us about making changes similar to our GIMP changes.  So yes,
there is interest in really using these changes.

--
Steve
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