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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] readahead: limit readahead size for small devices
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:11:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B85EA46.5090607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224031053.737437080@intel.com>

On 02/23/2010 10:10 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Linus reports a _really_ small&  slow (505kB, 15kB/s) USB device,
> on which blkid runs unpleasantly slow. He manages to optimize the blkid
> reads down to 1kB+16kB, but still kernel read-ahead turns it into 48kB.

> CC: Li Shaohua<shaohua.li@intel.com>
> CC: Clemens Ladisch<clemens@ladisch.de>
> Acked-by: Jens Axboe<jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> Tested-by: Vivek Goyal<vgoyal@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-25  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24  3:10 [PATCH 00/15] 512K readahead size with thrashing safe readahead v2 Wu Fengguang
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 01/15] readahead: limit readahead size for small devices Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25  3:11   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 02/15] readahead: retain inactive lru pages to be accessed soon Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25  3:17   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-25 12:27     ` Wu Fengguang
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 03/15] readahead: bump up the default readahead size Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25  4:02   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 04/15] readahead: make default readahead size a kernel parameter Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 14:59   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 05/15] readahead: limit readahead size for small memory systems Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 15:00   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-25 15:25   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-02-26  2:29     ` Wu Fengguang
2010-02-26  2:48       ` [PATCH] readahead: add notes on readahead size Wu Fengguang
2010-02-26 14:17         ` Vivek Goyal
2010-02-26  7:23       ` [PATCH 05/15] readahead: limit readahead size for small memory systems Christian Ehrhardt
2010-02-26  7:38         ` Wu Fengguang
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 06/15] readahead: replace ra->mmap_miss with ra->ra_flags Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 15:52   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 07/15] readahead: thrashing safe context readahead Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 16:24   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 08/15] readahead: record readahead patterns Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 22:37   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 09/15] readahead: add tracing event Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 22:38   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 10/15] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 22:40   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 11/15] readahead: dont do start-of-file readahead after lseek() Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 22:42   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 12/15] radixtree: introduce radix_tree_lookup_leaf_node() Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 23:13   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 13/15] radixtree: speed up the search for hole Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 23:37   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 14/15] readahead: reduce MMAP_LOTSAMISS for mmap read-around Wu Fengguang
2010-02-25 23:42   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-24  3:10 ` [PATCH 15/15] readahead: pagecache context based " Wu Fengguang
2010-02-26  1:33   ` Rik van Riel

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