[PATCH 24/33] readahead: seeking reads method

Wu Fengguang
2006-05-24T11:21:12Z

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Readahead policy on read after seeking.

It tries to detect sequences like:
seek(), 5*read(); seek(), 6*read(); seek(), 4*read(); ...

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---

mm/readahead.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/readahead.c
@@ -1614,6 +1614,49 @@ try_read_backward(struct file_ra_state *
}

/*
+ * If there is a previous sequential read, it is likely to be another
+ * sequential read at the new position.
+ *
+ * i.e. detect the following sequences:
+ * seek(), 5*read(); seek(), 6*read(); seek(), 4*read(); ...
+ *
+ * Databases are known to have this seek-and-read-N-pages pattern.
+ */
+static int
+try_readahead_on_seek(struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t index,
+ unsigned long ra_size, unsigned long ra_max)
+{
+ unsigned long hit0 = ra_cache_hit(ra, 0);
+ unsigned long hit1 = ra_cache_hit(ra, 1) + hit0;
+ unsigned long hit2 = ra_cache_hit(ra, 2);
+ unsigned long hit3 = ra_cache_hit(ra, 3);
+
+ /* There's a previous read-ahead request? */
+ if (!ra_has_index(ra, ra->prev_page))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* The previous read-ahead sequences have similiar sizes? */
+ if (!(ra_size < hit1 && hit1 > hit2 / 2 &&
+ hit2 > hit3 / 2 &&
+ hit3 > hit1 / 2))
+ return 0;
+
+ hit1 = max(hit1, hit2);
+
+ /* Follow the same prefetching direction. */
+ if ((ra->flags & RA_CLASS_MASK) == RA_CLASS_BACKWARD)
+ index = ((index > hit1 - ra_size) ? index - hit1 + ra_size : 0);
+
+ ra_size = min(hit1, ra_max);
+
+ ra_set_class(ra, RA_CLASS_SEEK);
+ ra_set_index(ra, index, index);
+ ra_set_size(ra, ra_size, 0);
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
+/*
* ra_min is mainly determined by the size of cache memory. Reasonable?
*
* Table of concrete numbers for 4KB page size:

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