[PATCH v5 00/13] Change readahead API

Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-11T01:04:22Z

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>

This series adds a readahead address_space operation to eventually
replace the readpages operation. The key difference is that
pages are added to the page cache as they are allocated (and
then looked up by the filesystem) instead of passing them on a
list to the readpages operation and having the filesystem add
them to the page cache. It's a net reduction in code for each
implementation, more efficient than walking a list, and solves
the direct-write vs buffered-read problem reported by yu kuai at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200116063601.39201-1-yukuai3@huawei.com/

v5 switches to passing a readahead_control struct (mirroring the
writepages_control struct passed to writepages). This has a number of
advantages:
- It fixes a number of bugs in various implementations, eg forgetting to
increment 'start', an off-by-one error in 'nr_pages' or treating 'start'
as a byte offset instead of a page offset.
- It allows us to change the arguments without changing all the
implementations of ->readahead which just call mpage_readahead() or
iomap_readahead()
- Figuring out which pages haven't been attempted by the implementation
is more natural this way.
- There's less code in each implementation.

This version deletes a lot more lines than previous versions of the patch
-- we're net -97 lines instead of -17 with v4. It'll be even more when
we can finish the conversion and remove all the ->readpages support code,
including read_cache_pages().

Also new in v5 is patch 5 which adds page_cache_readahead_limit() and
converts ext4 and f2fs to use it for their Merkel trees.

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (13):
mm: Fix the return type of __do_page_cache_readahead
mm: Ignore return value of ->readpages
mm: Put readahead pages in cache earlier
mm: Add readahead address space operation
mm: Add page_cache_readahead_limit
fs: Convert mpage_readpages to mpage_readahead
btrfs: Convert from readpages to readahead
erofs: Convert uncompressed files from readpages to readahead
erofs: Convert compressed files from readpages to readahead
ext4: Convert from readpages to readahead
f2fs: Convert from readpages to readahead
fuse: Convert from readpages to readahead
iomap: Convert from readpages to readahead

Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 6 +-
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 13 +++
drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c | 7 +-
fs/block_dev.c | 7 +-
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 48 +++------
fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 3 +-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 16 ++-
fs/erofs/data.c | 39 +++----
fs/erofs/zdata.c | 29 ++----
fs/ext2/inode.c | 10 +-
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +-
fs/ext4/inode.c | 23 ++---
fs/ext4/readpage.c | 22 ++--
fs/ext4/verity.c | 35 +------
fs/f2fs/data.c | 50 ++++-----
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 5 +-
fs/f2fs/verity.c | 35 +------
fs/fat/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/fuse/file.c | 46 ++++-----
fs/gfs2/aops.c | 23 ++---
fs/hpfs/file.c | 7 +-
fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 103 ++++++-------------
fs/iomap/trace.h | 2 +-
fs/isofs/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/jfs/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/mpage.c | 38 +++----
fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 15 +--
fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 34 +++---
fs/omfs/file.c | 7 +-
fs/qnx6/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 8 +-
fs/udf/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 13 +--
fs/zonefs/super.c | 7 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +
include/linux/iomap.h | 3 +-
include/linux/mpage.h | 4 +-
include/linux/pagemap.h | 84 +++++++++++++++
include/trace/events/erofs.h | 6 +-
include/trace/events/f2fs.h | 6 +-
mm/internal.h | 2 +-
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
mm/readahead.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++----------
43 files changed, 422 insertions(+), 519 deletions(-)

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