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From: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@linux.intel.com>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	linux-api <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	manpages <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5]add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimJ8ufoaM2GMDkUU=cjz19QtpihrgLNjjZN8m=1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110119123451.75bb3c76.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> It would be much more valuable if those 3.5 seconds were available to
> devices which really really care about bootup times, but very few of
> those devices use rotating disks nowadays, I expect?

And don't rotating disk modules read and buffer whole tracks, doing
their own readahead, anymore, anyway? Isn't that part of what "on-disk
cache" does?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19  1:15 [PATCH v3 0/5]add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs Shaohua Li
2011-01-19 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-19 21:33   ` David Nicol [this message]
2011-01-20  2:27     ` Shaohua Li
     [not found]   ` <20110119123451.75bb3c76.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-20  2:34     ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-20  2:46       ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]         ` <20110119184636.fed233a7.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-20  2:58           ` Shaohua Li

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