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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision.ag>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.5.0 kill  read_ahead array.
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:34:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011126093414.B730@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111221046170.1479-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <3C022CEF.BC4340A1@evision-ventures.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C022CEF.BC4340A1@evision-ventures.com>; from dalecki@evision-ventures.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:52:15PM +0100

On Nov 26, 2001  12:52 +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> This is removing the "write only" read_ahead sparse array from all
> the places where it's "used" by now. 
> This is just saving some memmory.

Is this a case of the "read_ahead" array is redundant and read ahead is
done at a different level (not using this array), or is it a case of
read ahead not being done at all?  If it is not being done at all, then
removing the unused array is the wrong thing to do - we should fix
read ahead, and start using the array.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-26 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-22  6:44 Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Linus Torvalds
2001-11-22  7:47 ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-22 18:52   ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Linus Torvalds
2001-11-22 19:34     ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Alexander Viro
2001-11-22 19:46       ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Tom Rini
2001-11-23 16:20     ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Michael H. Warfield
2001-11-26 11:52     ` PATCH 2.5.0 kill read_ahead array Martin Dalecki
2001-11-26 16:34       ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-26 16:53         ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-22 19:16   ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 Tim Schmielau
2001-11-26 15:18   ` Linux-2.4.15-pre9 bill davidsen
2001-11-22  8:41 ` [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads Erik Andersen
2001-11-22 17:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-22 17:20     ` Erik Andersen
2001-11-22 18:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-24  0:04         ` Erik Andersen

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