Re: Lockless page cache test results

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 14:45:05 EST


Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > OK. That doesn't sound like something which a real application is likely
> > to do ;)
>
> A real application scenario may be an application that has lots of threads
> that are streaming data through multiple different disk channels (that
> are able to transfer data simultanouesly. e.g. connected to different
> nodes in a NUMA system) into the same address space.
>
> Something like the above is fairly typical for multimedia filters
> processing large amounts of data.

>From the same file?

To /dev/null?
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