Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753679AbaGCSx7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:53:59 -0400 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:53513 "EHLO e23smtp09.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752351AbaGCSx5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:53:57 -0400 Message-ID: <53B5A5FE.2080500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:20:38 +0530 From: Raghavendra K T Organization: IBM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Fengguang Wu , David Cohen , Al Viro , Damien Ramonda , Jan Kara , David Rientjes , Nishanth Aravamudan , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm readahead: Fix sys_readahead breakage by reverting 2MB limit (bug 79111) References: <1404392547-11648-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53B59CB5.9060004@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53B5A343.4090402@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <53B5A343.4090402@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14070318-3568-0000-0000-000005CB4784 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/04/2014 12:08 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > On 07/03/2014 11:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Linus Torvalds >> wrote: [...] t. >> >> I do *not* think we should bow down to insane man-pages that have >> always been wrong, though, and I don't think we should increase it to >> "let's just read-ahead a whole ISO image" kind of sizes.. > > Okay, how about something like 256MB? I would be happy to send a patch > for that change. Sorry I was too fast. I think some thing like 16MB? I 'll send patch with that (unless you different size in mind). -- 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/