On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 18:19, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> On 2023-01-19 22:19:10 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
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> > 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.
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Gregory Stark
As Commitfest Manager