Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:43:38 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I still don't think maintainig this array is worth just for hfs > readahead, so the below patch disables it and gets rid of read_ahead. > > Jens, could you check the patch and include it in your next batch of > block-layer changes for Linus?
What would be significantly more useful would be to make it actually work. Lots of drivers benefit from control over readahead sizes - both the stunningly slow low end stuff and the high end raid cards that often want to get hit by very large I/O requests (eg 128K for the ami megaraid)
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