[PATCH v9 14/25] mm: Document why we don't set PageReadahead

Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-20T14:24:26Z

If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
---
mm/readahead.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 8ee9036fd681..0afb55a49909 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