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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:17:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070721061720.GA5293@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707202312260.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:13:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I thought the new patches were some some restructured code, but 
> > essentially the tested algorithms?
> 
> No, this series is a further cleanup on top of the restructured code, with 
> some new features too. The series _looks_ fine to me, but it still makes 
> sense to go through -mm, I think.

What I meant was:

iirc he first had a "very complex" patchkit in -mm* (the one 
with multiple predictors working together); then that got then replaced
with a simpler easier to review one and now he's feeding the stuff from
the complex one piece by piece back.

Just pointed out that the newer stuff was likely already in -mm* for some
time, just before one of the simplifications.

But I guess more testing cannot hurt anyways.

Anyways it's good we're finally making forward progress on this. It has 
the potential for real nice performance gains.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-21  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070721035733.951838089@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] readahead cleanups and interleaved readahead take 2 Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035850.977231489@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state Fengguang Wu
     [not found]   ` <20070721040644.GA9750@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  4:06     ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21  4:27       ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]         ` <20070721042939.GA28875@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  4:29           ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21  5:57         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21  6:03           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-21  6:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21  6:17             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.185553787@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 2/8] mmap read-around simplification Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.321030363@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 3/8] combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_pos Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.461364420@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 4/8] trivial filemap.c cleanups Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.638623804@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 5/8] remove several readahead macros Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.791763729@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 6/8] remove the limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035851.946351617@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 7/8] introduce radix_tree_scan_hole() Fengguang Wu
     [not found] ` <20070721035852.104255316@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-07-21  3:57   ` [PATCH 8/8] basic support of interleaved reads Fengguang Wu

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