Re: [NFS] Re: Fix knfsd readahead cache in 2.4.15

Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-27T15:24:15Z

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:54:46PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Hint: readahead via the page cache is the way to go...
>
> That's not the problem: knfsd has always done readahead via the page
> cache.

Sorry for not being clear, but what I was referring to is making the
decision about how to read ahead by what is already in the page cache.
It has a number of benefits that database people are after as it allows
multiple threads using pread/pwrite to obtain the benefits of readahead.

-ben