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readahead: add look-ahead support to __do_page_cache_readahead() 

Add look-ahead support to __do_page_cache_readahead().

It works by
	- mark the Nth backwards page with PG_readahead,
	(which instructs the page's first reader to invoke readahead)
	- and only do the marking for newly allocated pages.
	(to prevent blindly doing readahead on already cached pages)

Look-ahead is a technique to achieve I/O pipelining:

While the application is working through a chunk of cached pages, the kernel
reads-ahead the next chunk of pages _before_ time of need.  It effectively
hides low level I/O latencies to high level applications.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Fengguang Wu 2007-07-19 01:47:57 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d77c2d7cc5
commit 46fc3e7b4e
1 changed files with 9 additions and 6 deletions
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mm/readahead.c
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@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ out:
*/
static int
__do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read,
unsigned long lookahead_size)
{
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct page *page;
@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (isize == 0)
goto out;
end_index = ((isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
end_index = ((isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
/*
* Preallocate as many pages as we will need.
@ -301,6 +302,8 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
break;
page->index = page_offset;
list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
SetPageReadahead(page);
ret++;
}
read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
@ -337,7 +340,7 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (this_chunk > nr_to_read)
this_chunk = nr_to_read;
err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
offset, this_chunk);
offset, this_chunk, 0);
if (err < 0) {
ret = err;
break;
@ -384,7 +387,7 @@ int do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (bdi_read_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info))
return -1;
return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read, 0);
}
/*
@ -404,7 +407,7 @@ blockable_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (!block && bdi_read_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info))
return 0;
actual = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
actual = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read, 0);
return check_ra_success(ra, nr_to_read, actual);
}
@ -449,7 +452,7 @@ static int make_ahead_window(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
* @req_size: hint: total size of the read which the caller is performing in
* PAGE_CACHE_SIZE units
*
* page_cache_readahead() is the main function. If performs the adaptive
* page_cache_readahead() is the main function. It performs the adaptive
* readahead window size management and submits the readahead I/O.
*
* Note that @filp is purely used for passing on to the ->readpage[s]()