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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:29:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129122951.GA17432@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111129064109.GA8612@localhost>

>  int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
>  		pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
>  {
> +	struct file_ra_state fadvice_ra = {
> +		.pattern	= RA_PATTERN_FADVISE,
> +	};
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages))
> @@ -222,8 +397,9 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad
>  
>  		if (this_chunk > nr_to_read)
>  			this_chunk = nr_to_read;
> -		err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
> -						offset, this_chunk, 0);
> +		fadvice_ra.start = offset;
> +		fadvice_ra.size = this_chunk;
> +		err = ra_submit(&fadvice_ra, mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
>  		if (err < 0) {
>  			ret = err;
>  			break;

It looks that we can safely use filp->f_ra:

@@ -214,6 +386,7 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad
        if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages))
                return -EINVAL;

+       filp->f_ra.pattern = RA_PATTERN_FADVISE;
        nr_to_read = max_sane_readahead(nr_to_read);
        while (nr_to_read) {
                int err;
@@ -222,8 +395,9 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad
               
                if (this_chunk > nr_to_read)
                        this_chunk = nr_to_read;
-               err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
-                                               offset, this_chunk, 0);
+               filp->f_ra.start = offset;
+               filp->f_ra.size = this_chunk;
+               err = ra_submit(&filp->f_ra, mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
                if (err < 0) {
                        ret = err;
                        break;

But still, it adds one more function call to the fadvise path.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21  9:18 [PATCH 0/8] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: limit default readahead size for small devices Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 10:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-21 11:24     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 12:47     ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-21 14:46   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-11-21 22:52   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-22 14:23     ` Jeff Moyer
2011-11-23 12:18     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] readahead: make default readahead size a kernel parameter Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 10:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-21 11:35     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-24 22:28       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-25  0:36         ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-28  2:39           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 13:04             ` Christian Ehrhardt
2011-11-30 13:29               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 16:09                 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-21 13:16   ` Namhyung Kim
2011-11-21 13:24     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] readahead: replace ra->mmap_miss with ra->ra_flags Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 11:04   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-11-21 11:42     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 23:01   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-23 12:47     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-23 20:31       ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-29  3:42         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] readahead: record readahead patterns Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 23:19   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-29  2:40     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 14:17   ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-22 14:14     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 23:29   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-21 23:32     ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-29  3:23     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29  4:49       ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-29  6:41         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 12:29           ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] readahead: add debug tracing event Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 14:01   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 23:33   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-29  3:08     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] readahead: dont do start-of-file readahead after lseek() Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21 23:36   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-22 14:18     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-21  9:56 ` [PATCH 0/8] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-21 12:00   ` Wu Fengguang

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