Thread (45 messages) 45 messages, 9 authors, 2011-11-30

Re: [PATCH 2/8] readahead: make default readahead size a kernel parameter

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2011-11-21 10:01:37
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:18:21PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
From: Nikanth Karthikesan <redacted>

Add new kernel parameter "readahead=", which allows user to override
the static VM_MAX_READAHEAD=128kb.
Is a boot-time paramter really such a good idea?  I would at least make
it a sysctl so that it's run-time controllable, including beeing able
to set it from initscripts.

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