Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754045AbaBQW7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:59:03 -0500 Received: from mail-ve0-f169.google.com ([209.85.128.169]:44418 "EHLO mail-ve0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752209AbaBQW7B (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:59:01 -0500 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 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _n2NkRIVFGbNWUSlV7-zWgTrbgs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages From: Linus Torvalds 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/