This is the 7th version of adaptive read-ahead patch.
There are various code cleanups and polish ups:
- new tunable parameters: readahead_hit_rate/readahead_live_chunk
- support sparse sequential accesses
- delay look-ahead in laptop mode
- disable look-ahead for loopback file
- make mandatory thrashing protection more simple and robust
- attempt to improve responsiveness on large I/O request size
Support for sparse reads is disabled by default. One must increase
/proc/sys/vm/readahead_hit_rate to explicitly enable it. Please
refer to Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
Currently the linux kernel does not support inter-file read-ahead.
Tero Grundstr?m takes an intresting approach that achieves it: pack
a dir of small files into a loopback file with reiserfs filesystem, and
turn on sparse read support. But be prepared to waste some memory by
this way :(
For crazy laptop users who prefer aggressive read-ahead, here is the way:
# echo 10000 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio
# blockdev --setra 524280 /dev/hda # this is the max possible value
Notes:
- It is still an untested feature.
- It is safer to use blockdev+fadvise to increase ra-max for a single file,
which needs patching your movie player.
- Be sure to restore them to sane values in normal operations!
Regards,
Wu
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