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Ram Pai authored
Here is a consolidated readahead patch that takes care of the performance regression seen with multiple threaded writes to the same file descriptor. The patch does the following: 1. Instead of calculating the average count of sequential access in the read patterns, it calculates the average amount of hits in the current window. 2. This average is used to guide the size of the next current window. 3. Since the field serial_cnt in the ra structure does not make sense with the introduction of the new logic, I have renamed that field as currnt_wnd_hit. This patch will help the read patterns that are not neccessarily sequential but have sufficient locality. However it may regress random workload. Results: 1. Berkley Shands has reported great performance with this patch. 2. iozone showed negligible effect on various read patterns. 3. DSS workload saw neglible change. 4. Sysbench saw a small improvement. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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