Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 13 2014 - 19:45:59 EST


On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:37:53 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr)
> {
> return min(nr, 128);
> }

I bet nobody will notice.

It should be 128*4096/PAGE_CACHE_SIZE so that variations in PAGE_SIZE
don't affect readahead behaviour.

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