Re: clustering page-ins

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:12:27 +0100


On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 03:04:25PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:

> > Since each mapping has its own vm_area, I don't see the problem.
> > Do you want different mappers to share read-ahead info?
>
> yes, since they are sharing the same file in the same page cache it
> would be silly to trigger read-ahead needlessly, even if it finds all the
> pages already in the page cache.

Does that mean we could get away with passing an inode rather than a filp
to i_op->readpage()? That makes some of my code for the NTFS driver a little
tidier.

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