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authorLee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>2013-05-05 17:31:17 +0300
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2016-08-26 20:07:40 +0200
commit231e3ac4c3712b6e5304056319da66c68a6595cf (patch)
treefdd065cc6dbfde5ecb9fb3ab417cb40fcedf9d22 /mm/readahead.c
parente8ff419a0c98a144a85b9bfcfbd175a1927cb926 (diff)
mm: pass readahead info down to the i/o scheduler
Some i/o schedulers (i.e. row-iosched, cfq-iosched) deploy an idling algorithm in order to be better synced with the readahead algorithm. Idling is a prediction algorithm for incoming read requests. In this patch we mark pages which are part of a readahead window, by setting a newly introduced flag. With this flag, the i/o scheduler can identify a request which is associated with a readahead page. This enables the i/o scheduler's idling mechanism to be en-sync with the readahead mechanism and, in turn, can increase read throughput. Change-Id: I0654f23315b6d19d71bcc9cc029c6b281a44b196 Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Guendhoer <stefan@guendhoer.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/readahead.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/readahead.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index daed28dd5..87bc49730 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -186,6 +186,9 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (!page)
break;
page->index = page_offset;
+
+ page->flags |= (1L << PG_readahead);
+
list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
SetPageReadahead(page);