On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 18:19, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > On 2023-01-19 22:19:10 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: > > > So I'm a bit unsure about this patch. I doesn't seem like it can perform > > better than read-ahead (although perhaps it does, on a different storage > > system). > > I really don't see the point of the patch as-is. ... > I don't disagree fundamentally. But that doesn't make this patch a useful > starting point.
It sounds like this patch has gotten off on the wrong foot and is not worth moving forward to the next commitfest. Hopefully a starting over from a different approach might target i/o that is more amenable to fadvise. I'll mark it RwF. -- Gregory Stark As Commitfest Manager
