Re: [PATCH] Improve heuristic detecting sequential reads

[Andrew Morton]

On 11 Apr 2007 00:56:51 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >   Hello!
> > 
> >   In thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/403, we discussed a problem
> > with the current heuristic for detecting sequential IO in
> > do_generic_mapping_read() - for small files a page is marked as accessed
> > only once which can cause a performance problems.
> >   Attached is a patch that improves the heuristic by introducing a
> > ra.offset variable so now we can reliably detect sequetial reads.
> > The patch replaces Nick's patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/15/177
> > (Nick has acked to replace the patch). Could you please put the patch
> > into -mm?
> 
> There's a much more complete patchkit for this that gets reposted
> regularly on l-k. Perhaps it would make sense to test that first?

adaptive readahead?  Has been in -mm for a year.  Problem is, it is
_so_ complete that I just don't know how to merge it.  It's huge, and
only Wu understands it. So it's really rather stuck.
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