Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:05:07 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Blocksize question |
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Sieger Ralf AI wrote:
> I can't set the blocksize for a device higher than the actual page size. > A higher blocksize would be good for the throughput which I want to > achieve :-) > Is there an easy way to avoid this limitations?
Linux does readahead anyways, so the throughput will be a lot higher than block-by-block reading anyway.
> Or are there other ways to increase the throughput?
If you want to make the readahead more agressive, you can always hack /usr/src/linux/mm/filemap.c...
> A hint to a solution would be enough.
Hope this helps :-)
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