From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com (mail-pa0-f42.google.com [209.85.220.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710F86B003C for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:25:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id fb1so3976537pad.1 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pd0-x236.google.com (mail-pd0-x236.google.com [2607:f8b0:400e:c02::236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id tk9si6304433pac.88.2014.03.15.09.25.56 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f182.google.com with SMTP id y10so3851619pdj.27 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:25:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <53247E31.7060002@ubuntu.com> References: <1394812471-9693-1-git-send-email-psusi@ubuntu.com> <532417CA.1040300@gmail.com> <53247E31.7060002@ubuntu.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:25:35 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Phillip Susi Cc: linux-man , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Corrado Zoccolo , "Gregory P. Smith" , Zhu Yanhai On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > 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". Thanks. Fixed. Otherwise okay, I assume? -- 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