From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC][Resend] Make NFS-Client readahead tunable Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:13:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20080917201334.f680ea1a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <997439.5560.qm@web32601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <48D1B21E.3060509@melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Martin Knoblauch , linux-nfs list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Banks Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51140 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752661AbYIRDNn (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:13:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48D1B21E.3060509-cP1dWloDopni96+mSzHFpQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:42:54 +1000 Greg Banks wrote: > I think having a tunable for client readahead is an excellent idea, > although not to solve your particular problem. The SLES10 kernel has a > patch which does precisely that, perhaps Neil could post it. > > I don't think there's a lot of point having both a module parameter and > a sysctl. mount -o remount,readahead=42