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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Madper Xie <cxie@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Damien Ramonda <damien.ramonda@intel.com>,
	rientjes@google.com, Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 ] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for memoryless cpu and limit readahead pages
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:43:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5327F218.1000506@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ty1zig4.fsf@redhat.com>

On 03/17/2014 07:37 AM, Madper Xie wrote:
>
> Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> On 02/18/2014 03:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> On Tue 18-02-14 12:55:38, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Hi. Just a concern. Will the performance reduce on some special storage
> backend? E.g. tape.
> The existent applications may using readahead for userspace I/O schedule
> to decrease seeking time.

I have not tested the patch on such systems yet unfortunately :(.
Sequential read with huge file has not suffered on disk based system,
but I think, I should be honest enough not to guess the effect on tape.

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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Madper Xie <cxie@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Damien Ramonda <damien.ramonda@intel.com>,
	rientjes@google.com, Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 ] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for memoryless cpu and limit readahead pages
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:43:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5327F218.1000506@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ty1zig4.fsf@redhat.com>

On 03/17/2014 07:37 AM, Madper Xie wrote:
>
> Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> On 02/18/2014 03:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> On Tue 18-02-14 12:55:38, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Hi. Just a concern. Will the performance reduce on some special storage
> backend? E.g. tape.
> The existent applications may using readahead for userspace I/O schedule
> to decrease seeking time.

I have not tested the patch on such systems yet unfortunately :(.
Sequential read with huge file has not suffered on disk based system,
but I think, I should be honest enough not to guess the effect on tape.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18  7:25 [PATCH V6 ] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for memoryless cpu and limit readahead pages Raghavendra K T
2014-02-18  7:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-18  9:49 ` Jan Kara
2014-02-18  9:49   ` Jan Kara
2014-02-18 12:04   ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-18 12:04     ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-18 12:04     ` Jan Kara
2014-02-18 12:04       ` Jan Kara
2014-03-17  2:07     ` Madper Xie
2014-03-17  2:07       ` Madper Xie
2014-03-18  7:13       ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2014-03-18  7:13         ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-18 22:23 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18 22:23   ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-18 22:38     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-18 22:46     ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18 22:46       ` David Rientjes

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