From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:02:22 -0700 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH v11 14/25] mm: Document why we don't set PageReadahead In-Reply-To: <20200414150233.24495-1-willy@infradead.org> References: <20200414150233.24495-1-willy@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20200414150233.24495-15-willy@infradead.org> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: William Kucharski --- mm/readahead.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index ae231a5312cb..73cb59ed5cff 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping, if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) { /* - * Page already present? Kick off the current batch of - * contiguous pages before continuing with the next - * batch. + * Page already present? Kick off the current batch + * of contiguous pages before continuing with the + * next batch. This page may be the one we would + * have intended to mark as Readahead, but we don't + * have a stable reference to this page, and it's + * not worth getting one just for that. */ read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, true); continue; -- 2.25.1