defaults to 1, meaning that it's off.
When read-ahead is enabled on a file, the vfs cluster code deliberately
breaks a read into 2 I/O transactions; one to satisfy the actual read,
and one to perform read-ahead. This makes sense in low-latency
circumstances, but often produces unbalanced i/o transactions that
penalize disks. By setting vfs.read_min, we can tell the algorithm to
fetch a larger transaction that what we asked for, achieving the same
effect as the read-ahead but without the doubled, unbalanced transaction
and the slightly lower latency. This significantly helps our workloads
with video streaming.
Submitted by: emax
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: Netflix
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