Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sequential read from a block device is expected to be equal or faster > than from the file on a filesystem. But it is not correct due to the > lack of effective readpages() in the address space operations for > block device. Ah, a trip down memory lane. ;-) Here's a thread showing issues with the last time this was proposed (by me, incidentally): https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/480 At the very least, we need to see numbers on a real device, and see it booted on something with >4k page size before taking this back in. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
