diff -Naur orig/fs/nfs/inode.c edited/fs/nfs/inode.c
--- orig/fs/nfs/inode.c	2004-04-19 20:27:30.000000000 +0200
+++ edited/fs/nfs/inode.c	2004-04-19 22:32:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
  *  Change to nfs_read_super() to permit NFS mounts to multi-homed hosts.
  *  J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
  *
+ *  04/04 (FabianF)
+ *	-sysctl support
+ *	-readahead through sysctl
+ *
  */
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
@@ -42,13 +46,8 @@
 #define NFSDBG_FACILITY		NFSDBG_VFS
 #define NFS_PARANOIA 1
 
-/* Maximum number of readahead requests
- * FIXME: this should really be a sysctl so that users may tune it to suit
- *        their needs. People that do NFS over a slow network, might for
- *        instance want to reduce it to something closer to 1 for improved
- *        interactive response.
- */
-#define NFS_MAX_READAHEAD	(RPC_DEF_SLOT_TABLE - 1)
+/*Local sysctl handling*/
+#include "sysctl.h"
 
 static void nfs_invalidate_inode(struct inode *);
 static int nfs_update_inode(struct inode *, struct nfs_fattr *, unsigned long);
@@ -326,7 +325,7 @@
 		server->acdirmin = server->acdirmax = 0;
 		sb->s_flags |= MS_SYNCHRONOUS;
 	}
-	server->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = server->rpages * NFS_MAX_READAHEAD;
+	server->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = server->rpages * nfs_maxreadahead;
 
 	sb->s_maxbytes = fsinfo.maxfilesize;
 	if (sb->s_maxbytes > MAX_LFS_FILESIZE) 
@@ -1814,6 +1813,12 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 	rpc_proc_register(&nfs_rpcstat);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+	nfs_sysctl_table = register_sysctl_table(nfs_sysctl_root, 0);
+	if(!nfs_sysctl_table)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+#endif
+
         err = register_filesystem(&nfs_fs_type);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
@@ -1844,6 +1849,10 @@
 #endif
 	unregister_filesystem(&nfs_fs_type);
 	unregister_nfs4fs();
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL 
+	unregister_sysctl_table(nfs_sysctl_table);
+#endif
+
 }
 
 /* Not quite true; I just maintain it */
diff -Naur orig/fs/nfs/sysctl.h edited/fs/nfs/sysctl.h
--- orig/fs/nfs/sysctl.h	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ edited/fs/nfs/sysctl.h	2004-04-19 22:23:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * sysctl.h - NFS sysctl handling
+ * 
+ * Copyright (c) 2004 Fabian Frederick (fabian.frederick@gmx.fr)
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H
+#define _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H
+
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+static unsigned int 		nfs_maxreadahead = RPC_DEF_SLOT_TABLE-1;
+
+static const unsigned int	nfs_maxreadahead_min = 0;
+static const unsigned int	nfs_maxreadahead_max = 256;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+static struct ctl_table_header *nfs_sysctl_table;
+
+#define CTL_UNNUMBERED		-2
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctls[] = {
+        {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+                .procname       = "nfs_maxreadahead",
+                .data           = &nfs_maxreadahead,
+                .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
+                .mode           = 0644,
+                .proc_handler   = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
+                .extra1         = (unsigned long *) &nfs_maxreadahead_min,
+                .extra2         = (unsigned long *) &nfs_maxreadahead_max,
+        }
+};
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctl_dir[] = {
+        {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+                .procname       = "nfs",
+                .mode           = 0555,
+                .child          = nfs_sysctls,
+        },
+        { .ctl_name = 0 }
+};
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctl_root[] = {
+        {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_FS,
+                .procname       = "fs",
+                .mode           = 0555,
+                .child          = nfs_sysctl_dir,
+        },
+        { .ctl_name = 0 }
+};
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
+#endif /* _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H */