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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:33:06 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config for readahead window
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:25:08 -0700 Wei Wang <wvw@google.com> wrote:

> Change VM_MAX_READAHEAD value from the default 128KB to a configurable
> value. This will allow the readahead window to grow to a maximum size
> bigger than 128KB during boot, which could benefit to sequential read
> throughput and thus boot performance.

You can presently run ioctl(BLKRASET) against the block device?