On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:03:44 +0800 Zhaoyang Huang <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Some system(like android) will turbo read during startup via expanding the
> readahead window and then set it back to normal(128kb as usual). However, some
> files in the system process context will keep to be opened since it is opened
> up and has no chance to sync with the updated value as it is almost impossible
> to change the files attached to the inode(processes are unaware of these 
> things)

How about making VM_READAHEAD_PAGES a variable?  Provide a kernel boot
parameter to alter the default setting.  Userspace can then restore the
usual value later in boot?

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