Re: [patch 1/13] minimal rmap

Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:38:29 +0200


On Wednesday 17 July 2002 21:31, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 11: The nightly updatedb run is still evicting everything.
> >
> > That is not a problem with rmap per se, it's a result of not properly
> > handling streaming IO.
>
> Umm, updatedb isn't exactly streaming...

You're right, it's not exactly, it's hitting every directory entry on the
system, hopefully just once. Let's not call it streaming, let's call it...
err... use-once? ;-)

-- 
Daniel
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