From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:22:09 -0400 Message-ID: <53247E31.7060002@ubuntu.com> References: <1394812471-9693-1-git-send-email-psusi@ubuntu.com> <532417CA.1040300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Corrado Zoccolo , "Gregory P. Smith" , Zhu Yanhai To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <532417CA.1040300-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html