[PATCH v6 04/16] mm: Tweak readahead loop slightly

Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-17T18:48:30Z

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

Eliminate the page_offset variable which was just confusing;
record the start of each consecutive run of pages in the
readahead_control, and move the 'kick off a fresh batch' code to
the end of the function for easier use in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
mm/readahead.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 15329309231f..74791b96013f 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long lookahead_size)
{
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
- struct page *page;
unsigned long end_index; /* The last page we want to read */
LIST_HEAD(page_pool);
int page_idx;
@@ -163,6 +162,7 @@ void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
struct readahead_control rac = {
.mapping = mapping,
.file = filp,
+ ._start = offset,
._nr_pages = 0,
};

@@ -175,32 +175,39 @@ void __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
* Preallocate as many pages as we will need.
*/
for (page_idx = 0; page_idx < nr_to_read; page_idx++) {
- pgoff_t page_offset = offset + page_idx;
+ struct page *page;

- if (page_offset > end_index)
+ if (offset > end_index)
break;

- page = xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, page_offset);
+ page = xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, offset);
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.
*/
- if (readahead_count(&rac))
- read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, gfp_mask);
- rac._nr_pages = 0;
- continue;
+ goto read;
}

page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask);
if (!page)
break;
- page->index = page_offset;
+ page->index = offset;
list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
SetPageReadahead(page);
rac._nr_pages++;
+ offset++;
+ continue;
+read:
+ if (readahead_count(&rac))
+ read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, gfp_mask);
+ rac._nr_pages = 0;
+ rac._start = ++offset;
}

/*
--
2.25.0