Question on sys_readahead()

[Michael Marxmeier <mike@marxmeier.com>]

I have a question on sys_readahead and would appreciate 
some hint or a pointer.

- When was this call added?

- As far as i understand the code it reads the data into 
  the page cache. The data is ready sync and there is no
  way to do this async and have a notification unless using
  a separate thread.

A typical use i could see is preloading some data in the
page cache from a separate thread (eg. for a media player).

BTW: AFAICS the code is off by one if offset/count is not in 
PAGE_SIZE chunks? 

  unsigned long start = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
  unsigned long len = (count + ((long)offset & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;


Thanks
Michael

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