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| author | Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> | 2007-10-16 01:24:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:42:53 -0700 |
| commit | f2e189827a914b66e435e68b1c9e37775cb995ed (patch) | |
| tree | fa5748fa0ecdef500c616c28d2885d2385b17e4d /block | |
| parent | 535443f51543df61111bbd234300ae549d220448 (diff) | |
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readahead: remove the limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb
Remove the size limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb.
The size restriction is unreasonable. Especially when max_sectors_kb cannot
grow larger than max_hw_sectors_kb, which can be rather small for some disk
drives.
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/ll_rw_blk.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c index d875673e76cd..a83823fcd74f 100644 --- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c +++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c @@ -3928,7 +3928,6 @@ queue_max_sectors_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count) max_hw_sectors_kb = q->max_hw_sectors >> 1, page_kb = 1 << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10); ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&max_sectors_kb, page, count); - int ra_kb; if (max_sectors_kb > max_hw_sectors_kb || max_sectors_kb < page_kb) return -EINVAL; @@ -3937,14 +3936,6 @@ queue_max_sectors_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count) * values synchronously: */ spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); - /* - * Trim readahead window as well, if necessary: - */ - ra_kb = q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10); - if (ra_kb > max_sectors_kb) - q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = - max_sectors_kb >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10); - q->max_sectors = max_sectors_kb << 1; spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); |