On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 05:09:36PM -0700, James Peach wrote: > > You could add this to vfs_cacheprime, and just have an option that > determines whether it does a readahead (ie. I/O hint) or an actual > read(2).
I await your patch :-). > Sure, but 2 modules that do *almost* the same thing is just confusing. I don't think they do. readahead is built around this one syscall on Linux. It's not the same as cacheprime - cacheprime reads from the start of the file, readahead triggers on every pread/sendfile request that matches offset MOD readahead_offset. Jeremy.
