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Commit 240799cd authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table



With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block.  So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 37515fac
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