linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:51:56 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, drees76@...il.com, j@...nau.net,
	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca, tytso@....edu, jesper@...gh.cc,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> My only point is really that you _can_ do streaming writes well, but at 
> the same time I do think the kernel makes it too hard to do it with 
> "simple" applications. I'd love to get the same kind of high-speed 
> streaming behavior by just doing a simple "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile"
> 
> And I really think we should be able to.

The thing which has always worried me about trying to do smart
drop-behind is the cost of getting it wrong - and sometimes it _will_
get it wrong.

Someone out there will have an important application which linearly
writes a 1G file and then reads it all back in again.  They will get
really upset when their runtime doubles.
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