On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 17:40 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 21:15 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> > Yeah. I agree prefetching is definitely out of v13 scope. It might
> > be
> > interesting to try how useful would it be, if you're willing to
> > spend
> > some time on a prototype.
>
> I think a POC would be pretty quick; I'll see if I can hack something
> together.
Attached (intended for v14).
I changed the list from a simple array to a circular buffer so that we
can keep enough preallocated block numbers in it to do prefetching.
On SSD I didn't see any improvement, but perhaps it will do better on
magnetic storage.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
