Re: PATCH: killing read_ahead[]

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 12:18:24 EST


On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> The most amanzing thing is that the whole test10-pre5 kernel
> with this patch applied doesn't show any performance penalties
> for me at all! And of corse it's about 10k smaller...

Ideally we should (IMHO) get rid of all MAX_BLKDEV arrays.

They take up too much memory on small systems and aren't
big enough for big systems...

regards,

Rik

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