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    [PATCH] readahead: simplify recent fixes · da7d2464
    Ram Pai authored
    Ok I have enclosed the results for the recent readahead fixes.  The summary
    is: there is no significant improvement or decrease in performance of (DSS
    workload, iozone, sysbench) The increase or decrease is in the margin of
    errors.
    
    I have enclosed a patch that partially backs off Miklos's fix.  Shane
    Shrybman correctly pointed out that the real fix is to set ra->average
    value to max/2 when we move from readahead-off mode to readahead-on mode.
    The other part of Miklos's fix becomes irrelevent.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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