linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] mm readahead: Fix the readahead fail in case of empty numa node

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Message-Id: <20131204004125.a06f7dfc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2013 00:41:25 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	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>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm readahead: Fix the readahead fail in case of
 empty numa node

On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:00:09 +0530 Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > I don't recall the rationale for the current code and of course we
> > didn't document it.  It might be in the changelogs somewhere - could
> > you please do the git digging and see if you can find out?
> 
> Unfaortunately, from my search, I saw that the code belonged to pre git
> time, so could not get much information on that.

Here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/20/242

It seems it was done as a rather thoughtless performance optimisation. 
I'd say it's time to reimplement max_sane_readahead() from scratch.

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