Re: mmap() versus read()

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:16:33 +0000 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Long queue lengths are better for performance these days.

But wouldn't you want some form of I/O priority? You don't want
a page in of a code page to be stalled behind a long queue of
prefetches.

Mike

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