Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Disk use causes freezes
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 00:10:53 EEST
>Check out http://lwn.net/2001/0726/kernel.php3 and read the short
>blurb on single-use pages. Perhaps the patch referenced will help
>you out. I believe it's only for 2.4 though.
Sounds like linus likes this, and I can see why. This patch is going
to be *fantastic* for streaming media applications. it will fail to
help those, however, that ever read from the disk data stream twice,
so think ahead.
--p
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