Re: [PATCHSET v5 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads

Jens Axboe
2020-06-05T22:56:52Z

On 6/5/20 4:54 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2020-06-05 16:49:24 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Yes that's expected, if we have to fallback to ->readpage(), then it'll
>> go to a worker. read-ahead is what drives the async nature of it, as we
>> issue the range (plus more, depending on RA window) as read-ahead for
>> the normal read, then wait for it.
>
> But I assume async would still work for files with POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
> set, or not? Assuming the system wide setting isn't zero, of course.

Yes it'll work if FADV_RANDOM is set. But just not if read-ahead is
totally disabled. I guess we could make that work too, though not sure
that it's super important.

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Jens Axboe