Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:37:32 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: PATCH: killing read_ahead[] |
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not > break NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce > the performance slightly of EXT2/3 with iozone for read ahead > since the first section of the patch limits the read ahead > window size.
Ummm, please read it again ;)
The patch actually /increases/ the readahead size when we start to read a file from the beginning.
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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