Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:04:38 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Roberto Nibali wrote: > >>>They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup". The patch at >>>http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch >>>resurrects them. >>> >>Oh, I see. I've missed that patch of yours. I certainly enjoyed (maybe >>much to your grief) the comments in the code :). >> > > hmm. I'd better go back and check them then ;) > > >>Is GFP_READAHEAD still a wish or did you drop that idea? >> > > Dropped. Bad idea. If we have to do I/O to gather the readahead pages > then so be it. That I/O will cluster well, as will the subsequent readahead, > which is better than giving up on the readahead. > > >>AFAICS you only >>addressed the i386 arch with that patch, do you want the specific arch >>maintainers to clean up their part when your patch is finished? >> > > ? There's nothing arch-specific in any of this...
And there is nothing IDE related either. The code removed at the time wasn't used!
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