Re: mmap() is slower than read() on SCSI/IDE on 2.0 and 2.1
Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
16 Dec 1998 12:52:17 -0500
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> writes:
> The point is that there are many very common access patterns which the
> O/S can, and should, recognise and optimise without the user needing to
> tell us.
And it's often hard for the user to describe the patterns anyway (apart
from trivial cases like sequential and random)
Stefan
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