Andrew Morton wrote: > I've uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/pagecache-management/ a > little tool which permits the management of the pagecache usage of > arbitrary applications. Effectively it prevents the targetted application > from using any pagecache at all.
Cool, Kinda like noca? http://kernel.umbrella.ro/vm/ Though I could easily read your code, but couldn't immediately figure out what noca was doing. I used posix_fadvise in an app I did recently: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/ There is a stream_data() func there that does: read(src) write(dst) posix_fadvise(src) posix_fadvise(dst) for performance I found I needed to do it in that order so that any readahead done with the read(src) was not thrown away by the posix_fadvise(src). In addition to the order, one must be careful to throw away only what you've actually written. I'm not sure your lib gives enough control over this, as you essentially do: posix_fadvise(src) read(src) posix_fadvise(dst) write(dst) cheers, Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
