On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:18:26 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Add the backwards prefetching feature. It's pretty simple if we don't > support async prefetching and interleaved reads. Well OK, but I wonder how many applications out there read files in reverse order. Is it common enough to bother special-casing in the kernel like this? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>