[Lustre-discuss] Read ahead / prefetching

Arifa Nisar a-nisar at u.northwestern.edu
Wed Jul 28 09:43:53 PDT 2010


Hi,

I am trying to educate myself on prefetching/readahead algorithm for
Lustre's read. For a starter I only have two simple questions.

1 - Does Lustre detect linear or random I/O pattern or it always triggers
readahead?
2 - If readahead is triggered, how many pages are read in addition to what
is necessary? 

Thanks,
Arifa.




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