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[$] The problem of unnecessary readahead
Friday April 18, 2025. 04:24 PM , from LWN.net
The final session in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit was a brief, last-minute addition run by Kalesh Singh. The kernel's readahead mechanism is generally good for performance; it ensures that data is present by the time an application gets around to asking for it. Sometimes, though, readahead can go a little too far.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016860/
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