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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 10:22:27AM +0530, Shyam Prasad N wrote:
> Agree with this. Was experimenting on the similar lines on Friday.
> Does show good improvements with sequential workload.
> For random read/write workload, the user can use the default value.

For a random access workload, Linux's readahead shouldn't kick in.
Do you see a slowdown when using this patch with a random I/O workload?