Re: [PATCH] Speed up keyfile reading

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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 21:49:19 CEST, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2017 21:37 +0200, from gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx (Milan Broz):
> > How big is that keyfile? (And what is underlying storage?)
> > Just wonder why it is so slow...
> > 
> > Anyway, patches look good, I will commit it later.
> 
> FWIW, I concur with both. The patch looks fine to me, but it's weird
> that it should be needed in the first place.

Indeed. Usually, the read-ahead of the VFS system should
make this a still pretty fast operation. Is this on some 
special filesystem, like FLASH-filesystem on a really slow 
device? Or is this a really, really large keyfile?

Regards,
Arno
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