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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise(2) system call
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Hello, Adrian.
You wrote 30 =EE=EA=F2=FF=E1=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 15:57:23:

> I bet in the torrent client case, massive speedups could be done with
> correct use of either IO threads, or the POSIX AIO library.
> I'm all for using fadvise() to hint to the OS about what's about to
> happen (and I'll start leveraging it myself once it hits the tree) but
> there are other ways to skin this cat..
  Yes, but all "general-purpose" software is Linux-oriented. Replace
 simple model in transmission (I've thought about it) is not very
 simple task, and I don't think, that authors (Linux- and MacOS
 X-oriented) is not interested.

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>