• Joern Engel's avatar
    [PATCH] [MTD] block2mtd: remove readahead code · 21d31f1f
    Joern Engel authored
    Over the years there was a slow trickle of complaints against the readahead
    code.  Most of them concerned performance, Peter Zijlstra stumbled over it
    when working unrelated changes and I believe there was an actual bug report.
    Oh, Andrew Morton also complained about duplicating code from mm/readahead.c.
    
    It is just not worth it.  On flash media like usb sticks, readahead will
    make things go slow - very slow.  On spinning disks, readahead may be a
    win, but this is definitely not the place to add it.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJörn Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
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