linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read

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Message-ID: <53247E31.7060002@ubuntu.com>
Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:22:09 -0400
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
To:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
CC:	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>,
	"Gregory P. Smith" <gps@...gle.com>,
	Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data
 has been read

On 03/15/2014 05:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> I've tweaked your text a bit to make some details clearer (I hope):
>
>         readahead()  initiates  readahead  on a file so that subsequent
>         reads from that file will, be satisfied from the cache, and not
>         block  on  disk I/O (assuming the readahead was initiated early
>         enough and that other activity on the system  did  not  in  the
>         meantime flush pages from the cache).

Slight grammatical error there: there's an extra comma in "file will, be".


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