Re: [patch] 2.4's sys_readahead is borked

From: Robert Love
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 10:22:10 EST


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:30 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Hi, Marcelo.

> Hi Robert,
>
> This looks okay, applied.

Thanks!

> Question: Do you know any user of sys_readahead() ?

Not really - I've been playing with it. But OpenOffice just added it to
preload some of their libraries. It should probably be deprecated and
remove in 2.7, since posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) does this same
thing.

Robert Love


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