On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 01:22 -0400, Ashif Harji wrote: > I would tend to agree with David that: "Any application doing many > tiny-sized reads isn't exactly asking for great performance." As well, > applications concerned with performance and caching problems can read in a > file in PAGE_SIZE chunks. I still think the simple fix of removing the > condition is the best approach, but I'm certainly open to alternatives.
A possible alternative might be to store the offset within the page in the readahead state, and call mark_page_accessed() when the read offset is less than or equal to the previous offset. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
