Re: [PATCH] readahead: enforce full sync mmap readahead size

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Apr 12 2009 - 11:19:47 EST




On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> Now that we do readahead for sequential mmap reads, here is
> a simple evaluation of the impacts, and one further optimization.

Hmm.

Wu, I just went through your latest (?) series of 1-9 and they all looked
(a) quite small and (b) all of them looked like good cleanups.

And not only do they look good, you seem to have numbers to back it all up
too.

In other words, I'd really prefer to merge this sooner rather than later.
There just doesn't seem to be any reason _not_ to. Is there any reason to
not just take this? I realize that it's past -rc1, but this is way smaller
and saner-looking than the average patch that makes it in past -rc1.

Besides, it was originally posted before -rc1, and the last series didn't
have the much more intrusive page-fault-retry patches. I'd leave those for
the next merge window, but the read-ahead series (1-9 plus this final
one-liner) seem to be pure improvement - both in code readability _and_ in
numbers - with no real contentious issues.

No?

Linus
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