It is insane and error-prone to insist on the call sites to check for async
readahead after doing any sync one. I.e. whenever someone do a sync readahead:
if (!page)
page_cache_sync_readahead(...);
He must try async readahead, too:
page = find_get_page(...);
if (PageReadahead(page))
page_cache_async_readahead(...);
The tricky point is that PG_readahead could be set by a sync readahead for the
_current_ newly faulted in page, and the readahead code simply expects one more
callback to handle it. If the caller fails to do so, it will miss the
PG_readahead bits and never able to start an async readahead.
Avoid it by piggy-backing the async part _inside_ the readahead code.
Now if an async readahead should be started immediately after a sync one,
the readahead logic itself will do it. So the following code becomes valid:
if (!page)
page_cache_sync_readahead(...);
else if (PageReadahead(page))
page_cache_async_readahead(...);
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/readahead.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.24-rc5-mm1.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc5-mm1/mm/readahead.c
@@ -402,6 +402,14 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space
ra->async_size = ra->size > req_size ? ra->size - req_size : ra->size;
readit:
+ /*
+ * An async readahead should be triggered immediately.
+ * Instead of demanding all call sites to check for async readahead
+ * immediate after a sync one, start the async part now and here.
+ */
+ if (!hit_readahead_marker && ra->size == ra->async_size)
+ ra->size *= 2;
+
return ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp);
}
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