linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve heuristic detecting sequential reads

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:57:51 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve heuristic detecting sequential reads

On Tue 10-04-07 19:27:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And shouldn't offset be called prev_offset?  Or should prev_page be called
> page?  Or index?  Or prev_index?  Or Marmaduke?  The naming is all a mess.
> 
> Wanna take a look at all of this, please?
  OK, attached is a patch which changes prev_page to prev_index and offset
to prev_offset. It's still a bit misleading that in mm/filemap.c, variables
with page-numbers are called <something>_index while in mm/readahead.c they
are often called just offset... But let's leave it for next time.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs

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