Backward prefetching is vital to structural analysis and some other scientific applications. Comment this use case. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3.orig/mm/readahead.c +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/readahead.c @@ -1540,6 +1540,8 @@ initial_readahead(struct address_space * * Backward prefetching. * * No look-ahead and thrashing safety guard: should be unnecessary. + * + * Important for certain scientific arenas(i.e. structural analysis). */ static int try_read_backward(struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t begin_index, --