On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 01:56:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > This patch brings back the old behavior of max_sane_readahead() > > Yeah no. > > There was a reason that code was killed. No way in hell are we > bringing back the insanities with node memory etc. >
Would you consider bringing it back, but instead of node memory state, utilizing global memory state instead? > Also, we have never actually heard of anything sane that actualyl > depended on this. Last time this came up it was a made-up benchmark, > not an actual real load that cared. > > Who can possibly care about this in real life? > People filing bugs complaining their applications that memory map files are getting hurt by it. -- Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/