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Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-settings.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-settings.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c index 6b2dbe645d23..4817e7ca03f8 100644 --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -61,8 +61,14 @@ void blk_apply_bdi_limits(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, /* * For read-ahead of large files to be effective, we need to read ahead * at least twice the optimal I/O size. + * + * There is no hardware limitation for the read-ahead size and the user + * might have increased the read-ahead size through sysfs, so don't ever + * decrease it. */ - bdi->ra_pages = max(lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, VM_READAHEAD_PAGES); + bdi->ra_pages = max3(bdi->ra_pages, + lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, + VM_READAHEAD_PAGES); bdi->io_pages = lim->max_sectors >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT; } |