Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751013AbWE1WVz (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 18:21:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751016AbWE1WVy (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 18:21:54 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:64604 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbWE1WVy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 18:21:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dm554+D5bv83o+hCk8q6sO5rznr8Apo90GLuD3a32BW0/wPxMFG4AeIWIAX/8X1VzSThShPi4IyGCRpqvQBQIRmxL1TZPAeY/wiQVVIyFytCx6CUbmIkHEVTRBDS7bmpTswBJt6q/NYmLZnWS5GjvYAfkXMDCqDEbJ77+3Vpb/A= Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 00:20:32 +0200 From: Diego Calleja To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, folkert@vanheusden.com, ak@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn, mstone@mathom.us Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Adaptive read-ahead V12 Message-Id: <20060529002032.c5a955a5.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200605271008.42137.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <348469535.17438@ustc.edu.cn> <20060526235436.GD4294@vanheusden.com> <200605271000.12061.kernel@kolivas.org> <200605271008.42137.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 18 El Sat, 27 May 2006 10:08:41 +1000, Con Kolivas escribi?: > On Saturday 27 May 2006 10:00, Con Kolivas wrote: > Sorry I should have been clearer. The belief is that certain infrastructure > components do not benefit from a pluggable framework, and readeahead probably > comes under that description. It's not like Linus was implying we should only > have one filesystem for example, since filesystems are afterall pluggable > features. That leaves another question that I (a poor user) may have missed: Why is adaptive read-ahead compile-time configurable instead of completely replacing the old system? - 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/