From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:24:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111130002425.GA8734@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED50A63.1010805@draigBrady.com>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:37:55AM +0800, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/29/2011 03:35 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Someone already mentioned this earlier and I don't think I've seen a
> > response: Do you have a realistic usecase for this? I don't think I've ever
> > seen an application reading file backwards...
>
> tac, tail -n$large, ...
Indeed!
tac-4425 [000] 73358.419777: readahead: readahead-random(dev=0:16, ino=1548445, req=750+1, ra=750+1-0, async=0) = 1
tac-4425 [004] 73358.442030: readahead: readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=1548445, req=748+2, ra=746+5-0, async=0) = 4
tac-4425 [004] 73358.443312: readahead: readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=1548445, req=744+2, ra=726+25-0, async=0) = 20
tail-4369 [000] 72633.696307: readahead: readahead-random(dev=0:16, ino=1548450, req=750+1, ra=750+1-0, async=0) = 1
tail-4369 [004] 72634.042106: readahead: readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=1548450, req=748+2, ra=746+5-0, async=0) = 4
tail-4369 [004] 72634.043231: readahead: readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=1548450, req=744+2, ra=726+25-0, async=0) = 20
tail-4369 [004] 72634.176216: readahead: readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=1548450, req=724+2, ra=626+125-0, async=0) = 100
However I see the readahead requests always be snapped to EOF.
So it's obvious the "snap to EOF" logic need some limiting based on
max readahead size.
Thanks,
Fengguang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-30 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-29 13:09 [PATCH 0/9] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more (v2) Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 1/9] block: limit default readahead size for small devices Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 2/9] readahead: snap readahead request to EOF Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:29 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 1:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:37 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 12:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 3/9] readahead: record readahead patterns Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:40 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 17:57 ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-30 1:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-15 8:55 ` [PATCH] proc: show readahead state in fdinfo Wu Fengguang
2011-12-15 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] readahead: tag mmap page fault call sites Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:41 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] readahead: tag metadata " Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:45 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:21 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 0:44 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-14 6:36 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-19 16:32 ` Jan Kara
2011-12-21 1:29 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-21 4:06 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23 3:33 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-23 11:16 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] readahead: add vfs/readahead tracing event Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:22 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 0:42 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:44 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 12:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-06 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-07 9:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-08 9:03 ` [PATCH] writeback: show writeback reason with __print_symbolic Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:35 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 16:37 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-11-30 0:24 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-11-30 0:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:21 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] readahead: dont do start-of-file readahead after lseek() Wu Fengguang
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