[PATCH 1/8] readahead: min/max sizes: increase VM_MIN_READAHEAD to 32KB

[Fengguang Wu]

Use a minimal readahead size of 32KB instead of 16KB for the adaptive readahead.

The potential benefit(disk utilization in worst case doubles) is large, while
the potential panelty is small(wastes up to 32MB when thrashed/missed 1000 times).

This minimal value is only applied for sequential streams.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1069,10 +1069,11 @@ int write_one_page(struct page *page, in
 /* readahead.c */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ADAPTIVE_READAHEAD
 #define VM_MAX_READAHEAD	1024	/* kbytes */
+#define VM_MIN_READAHEAD	32	/* kbytes (includes current page) */
 #else
 #define VM_MAX_READAHEAD	128	/* kbytes */
-#endif
 #define VM_MIN_READAHEAD	16	/* kbytes (includes current page) */
+#endif
 #define VM_MAX_CACHE_HIT    	256	/* max pages in a row in cache before
 					 * turning readahead off */
 

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