On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:46:56AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > 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.
That could be a good idea. We definitely want to look at ways to solve with within the existing approach before any large scale change in behaviour. - 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/
