On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 01:56:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This patch brings back the old behavior of max_sane_readahead() > > Yeah no. > > There was a reason that code was killed. No way in hell are we > bringing back the insanities with node memory etc. > Would you consider bringing it back, but instead of node memory state, utilizing global memory state instead? > Also, we have never actually heard of anything sane that actualyl > depended on this. Last time this came up it was a made-up benchmark, > not an actual real load that cared. > > Who can possibly care about this in real life? > People filing bugs complaining their applications that memory map files are getting hurt by it. -- Rafael -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>