On 2013-02-16 14:53:43 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:13:04 -0500 > > Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I dunno. The byte vector might not be optimal but its worst cases > >> seem more attractive, is just as extensible, and dead simple to use. > > > > But I think "which pages from this 4TB file are in core" will not be an > > uncommon usage, and writing a gig of memory to find three pages is just > > awful. > > Actually, I don't know of any usage for this call. [months later, catching up] I do. Postgres' could really use something like that for making saner assumptions about the cost of doing an index/heap scan. postgres doesn't use mmap() and mmaping larger files into memory isn't all that cheap (32bit...) so having fincore would be nice. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
