On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> I did a test. I disabled readahead except for reading all 4 buffers in
> map_4sectors.
>
> I observed 14% slowdown on walking directories with find and 4% slowdown
> on grepping one my working directory (10M, 281 files).
>
> If you can't make it otherwise you can rip readahead out. If there is a
> possibility to keep it, it would be better.
The absolutely best thing would be to keep the directories in the page
cache. At which point the whole issue becomes pretty moot and we could use
the page-cache readahead code. Which gets the end right, and can handle
stuff that isn't physically contiguous on disk.
Linus
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