Subject: Re: yamt-readahead branch
To: None <chuq@chuq.com>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/17/2005 18:18:26
> > - building a heuristic which can handle multiple stream is hard. :-)
>
> I agree it's not trivial, but that should make it all the more satisfying. :-)
ok. :-)
then,
- store a hint from posix_fadvise in struct file.
- pass the hint to VOP_READ, instead of uvm_ractx.
- uvm_ra_request can do whatever it want with the hint.
sounds good?
YAMAMOTO Takashi