Re: [PATCH 10/19] readahead: state based method

[Eric Dumazet]

Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Hum... This sizeof(struct file) increase seems quite large...
>
> Have you ever considered to change struct file so that file_ra_state is 
> not embedded, but dynamically allocated (or other strategy) for regular 
> files ?
>
> I mean, sockets, pipes cannot readahead... And some machines use far 
> more sockets than regular files.
>
> I wrote such a patch in the past I could resend...

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112435605407020&w=2

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