From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ve0-f182.google.com (mail-ve0-f182.google.com [209.85.128.182]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D39B6B0039 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ve0-f182.google.com with SMTP id jw12so4096429veb.13 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com. [75.180.132.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id yv18si3375440vcb.14.2014.03.15.09.22.11 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53247E31.7060002@ubuntu.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:22:09 -0400 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read References: <1394812471-9693-1-git-send-email-psusi@ubuntu.com> <532417CA.1040300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <532417CA.1040300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Corrado Zoccolo , "Gregory P. Smith" , Zhu Yanhai On 03/15/2014 05:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > I've tweaked your text a bit to make some details clearer (I hope): > > readahead() initiates readahead on a file so that subsequent > reads from that file will, be satisfied from the cache, and not > block on disk I/O (assuming the readahead was initiated early > enough and that other activity on the system did not in the > meantime flush pages from the cache). Slight grammatical error there: there's an extra comma in "file will, be". -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org