linux-kernel - Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:46:26 -0500
From:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rsync@...ts.samba.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:28:32 +0900 (JST), KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Who can make rsync like io pattern test suite? a code change is easy. but
> to comfirm justification is more harder work.
> 
I'm afraid I don't have time to work up any code. I would be happy to
try the patch with my backup use-case though. I'll just have to think
of an objective way of measuring the result.

- Ben
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