linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:59:00 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Damien Ramonda <damien.ramonda@...el.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local
 memory and limit readahead pages

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan
<nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed that for the readahead case the above is probably more than
> sufficient.
>
> Apologies for hijacking the thread, my comments below were purely about
> the memoryless node support, not about readahead specifically.

Ok, no problem. I just wanted to make sure that we're not going down
some fragile rats nest just for something silly that wasn't worth it.

                 Linus
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