From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ve0-f176.google.com (mail-ve0-f176.google.com [209.85.128.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B6B6B0036 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:59:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ve0-f176.google.com with SMTP id jx11so5450456veb.21 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-ve0-x236.google.com (mail-ve0-x236.google.com [2607:f8b0:400c:c01::236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id sq4si4879642vdc.15.2014.02.17.14.59.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ve0-f182.google.com with SMTP id jy13so12971016veb.13 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140214043235.GA21999@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <52F88C16.70204@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <52F8C556.6090006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <52FC6F2A.30905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <52FC98A6.1000701@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140214001438.GB1651@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140214043235.GA21999@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:59:00 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages From: Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: David Rientjes , Raghavendra K T , Andrew Morton , Fengguang Wu , David Cohen , Al Viro , Damien Ramonda , Jan Kara , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > Agreed that for the readahead case the above is probably more than > sufficient. > > Apologies for hijacking the thread, my comments below were purely about > the memoryless node support, not about readahead specifically. Ok, no problem. I just wanted to make sure that we're not going down some fragile rats nest just for something silly that wasn't worth it. Linus -- 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