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Major kernel components of this project includes: - /proc/filecache interface for querying the pagecache
- prioritized I/O for readahead/read requests
Major user space components of this project includes: filecache a tool for /proc/filecache (to show up in the upcoming linux kernel)
bootcache create/preload/defrag a set of files for some task(i.e. boot)
readahead-fs readahead a set of files in parallel
When completed, the potential users can be: - desktop users, general purpose cache preloading
- system boot
- app startup
- dir tree
- user land support of software suspend to disk (swsusp)
- what to drop before suspend
- what to preload after resume
- server adms / kernel developers
- another view of system's file activity
- to explore/control the page cache
This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2006, mentored by Lubos Lunak from KDE. The SoC proposal can be found here: http://code.google.com/soc/2006/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=1F587222C2BBB5F4
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