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Zach Brown 9f1a3cfcff [PATCH] AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE victims in read_pages() belong in the LRU
AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE victims in read_pages() belong in the LRU

Nick Piggin rightly pointed out that the introduction of AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
to read_pages() was wrong to leave A_T_P victim pages in the page cache but
not put them in the LRU.  Failing to do so hid them from the VM.

A_T_P just means that the aop method unlocked the page rather than
performing IO.  It would be very rare that the page was truncated between
the unlock and testing A_T_P.  So we leave the pages in the LRU for likely
reuse soon rather than backing them back out of the page cache.  We do this
by matching the behaviour before the A_T_P introduction which added pages
to the LRU regardless of what ->readpage() did.

This doesn't include the unrelated cleanup in Nick's initial fix which
changed read_pages() to return void to match its only caller's behaviour of
ignoring errors.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:00:54 -07:00
Andrew Morton d8733c2956 [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead
Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when
ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory.  So for large
directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck.

So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead().  This means
that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop.

Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state,
but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's
address_space.  Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this.

Tested with printk.  It works.  I was struggling to find a real workload which
actually cared.

(The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules)

Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
Steven Pratt aed75ff3ca [PATCH] readahead: fix initial window size calculation
The current current get_init_ra_size is not optimal across different IO
sizes and max_readahead values.  Here is a quick summary of sizes computed
under current design and under the attached patch.  All of these assume 1st
IO at offset 0, or 1st detected sequential IO.

	32k max, 4k request

	old         new
	-----------------
	 8k        8k
	16k       16k
	32k       32k

	128k max, 4k request
	old         new
	-----------------
	32k         16k
	64k         32k
	128k        64k
	128k       128k

	128k max, 32k request
	old         new
	-----------------
	32k         64k    <-----
	64k        128k
	128k       128k

	512k max, 4k request
	old         new
	-----------------
	4k         32k     <----
	16k        64k
	64k       128k
	128k      256k
	512k      512k

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a564da3964 [PATCH] readahead: ->prev_page can overrun the ahead window
If get_next_ra_size() does not grow fast enough, ->prev_page can overrun
the ahead window.  This means the caller will read the pages from
->ahead_start + ->ahead_size to ->prev_page synchronously.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
Zach Brown 994fc28c7b [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
readpage(), prepare_write(), and commit_write() callers are updated to
understand the special return code AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE in the style of
writepage() and WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.  AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE tells the caller that
the callee has unlocked the page and that the operation should be tried again
with a new page.  OCFS2 uses this to detect and work around a lock inversion in
its aop methods.  There should be no change in behaviour for methods that don't
return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE.

WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is also prepended with AOP_ for consistency and they are
made enums so that kerneldoc can be used to document their semantics.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:42 -08:00
Andrew Morton 7361f4d8ca [PATCH] readahead commentary
Add a few comments surrounding the generic readahead API.

Also convert some ulongs into pgoff_t: the identifier for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
offsets into pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Steven Pratt 3b30bbd963 [PATCH] readahead: reset cache_hit earlier
We don't reset the cache hit count until after readahead does a successful
readahead.  This seems to leave a corner case open where we miss in cache,
but don't restart the readhead right away.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00