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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2000 08:01:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Joy Ganguly <joy@niksun.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OBJ_OPT???
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0005200759450.11094-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3925B8EE.E901BB31@falcon.niksun.com>

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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Joy Ganguly wrote:

> hi all
> 
> what does the flag OBJ_OPT mean?? i read it deals with some sort of IO
> optimization. but i dont know what it actually does. any insights on
> this??

IIRC, when you do an I/O on a file and some of the pages of that file are
already in the memory.  In this case, you only need to fix the mapping
without any real I/O on these page, this is called I/O OPTmization.

-Zhihui



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