Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:46:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: killing read_ahead[] |
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I agree with you and Rik that this array needs to go away... but > ripping out the feature is not the answer, IMHO.
Actually, the _real_ answer is to make fs/block_dev.c use the page cache instead - and generic_file_read() does read-ahead that actually improves performance, unlike the silly contortions that the direct block-dev read-ahead tries to do.
Linus
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