Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 2003 03:00:14 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.59-mm5 |
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Nikita Danilov wrote:
>Andrew Morton writes: > >[...] > > > > > In this very common scenario, the only way we'll ever get "lumps" of reads is > > if some other processes come in and happen to want to read nearby sectors. > >Or if you have read-ahead for meta-data, which is quite useful. Isn't >read ahead targeting the same problem as this anticipatory scheduling? > Finesse vs brute force. A bit of readahead is good.
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