From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:19:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201031922.GA31077@localhost> (raw)
aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only
be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not
necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags.
The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS
readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will
clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead.
More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim,
one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io()
unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals,
assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one
and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io()
in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage().
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
---
fs/nfs/read.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
This bug was found when playing with my readahead tracing module posted at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/27/373 and confirmed to work.
The NFS readahead traces are now
[ 59.972526] readahead-initial0(pid=3646(dd), dev=00:0f(0:f), ino=293189(1G), req=0+25, ra=0+60-30, async=0) = 60
[ 59.992734] readahead-subsequent(pid=3646(dd), dev=00:0f(0:f), ino=293189(1G), req=30+20, ra=60+30-30, async=1) = 30
[ 60.030900] readahead-subsequent(pid=3646(dd), dev=00:0f(0:f), ino=293189(1G), req=60+15, ra=90+30-30, async=1) = 30
[ 60.031687] readahead-subsequent(pid=3646(dd), dev=00:0f(0:f), ino=293189(1G), req=90+10, ra=120+30-30, async=1) = 30
The async field was always 0 before this patch.
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -533,12 +533,6 @@ readpage_async_filler(void *data, struct
unsigned int len;
int error;
- error = nfs_wb_page(inode, page);
- if (error)
- goto out_unlock;
- if (PageUptodate(page))
- goto out_unlock;
-
len = nfs_page_length(page);
if (len == 0)
return nfs_return_empty_page(page);
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