linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/14] readahead: clean up and simplify the code for filemap page fault readahead

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:50:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Pavel Levshin <lpk@....spb.su>, wli@...ementarian.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>,
	Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/14] readahead: clean up and simplify the code for
 filemap page fault readahead



On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> This shouldn't really change behavior all that much, but the single
> rather complex function with read-ahead inside a loop etc is broken up
> into more manageable pieces.

Heh. That's an old patch.

Anyway, ACK on the whole series (or at least the pieces of it that were 
cc'd to me). Looks like sane cleanups, and I don't mean just my own old 
patch ;)

		Linus
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