Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> hmm. funny. It doesn't provide eg. disk buffer page-aligned? OS would
> need to copy pages instead of using directly then...
I guess the reasoning is "if you want page aligned data then use a
allocator that guarantees you page aligned data, such as mmap()".
but linux has never been much for optimizing page aligned i/o by page
mapping.. not yet anyway.
/Henrik
Received on Fri Mar 30 2001 - 07:38:44 MST
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