Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 08:43:38 EST


> I still don't think maintainig this array is worth just for hfs
> readahead, so the below patch disables it and gets rid of read_ahead.
>
> Jens, could you check the patch and include it in your next batch of
> block-layer changes for Linus?

What would be significantly more useful would be to make it actually work.
Lots of drivers benefit from control over readahead sizes - both the
stunningly slow low end stuff and the high end raid cards that often want
to get hit by very large I/O requests (eg 128K for the ami megaraid)

Alan
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