linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] readahead: data structure and routines

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Message-Id: <1181694439.6237.94.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:27:19 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Steven Pratt <slpratt@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] readahead: data structure and routines

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 20:07 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Rusty,

Hi Fengguang,

> or preferably:
> 
> 	pgoff_t start;                 /* where readahead started */
>         unsigned long size;            /* # of readahead pages */
> 	unsigned long async_size;      /* do asynchronous readahead when there are only # of pages ahead */
> 
> 	unsigned long async_size_old;  /* TODO: this one is not needed for now */
> 
> Any opinions? Thanks.

These names and comments are really nice.  I think the code will become
more readable after this, too.

Did you want me to try to make this patch, or did you want to do it?

Thanks,
Rusty.


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