valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > As long as we're at it, if we go that route we probably *also* want a > way for a program to specify it at open() time (for instance, for the > use of backup programs) - that should minimize the infamous "everything > runs like a pig after the backup finishes running because the *useful* > pages are all cache-cold".
This sounds an awful lot like posix_fadvise' POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flag. Whether the implementation lives up to your expectations is another matter, but at least the interface is already there. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
