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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-12-12 16:43:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800
commit9491ae4aade6814afcfa67f4eb3e3342c2b39750 (patch)
treece3bd5d3a5c504548583ce581525011594589d59 /mm/readahead.c
parentf1f5929cd9715c1cdfe07a890f12ac7d2c5304ec (diff)
downloadlinux-9491ae4aade6814afcfa67f4eb3e3342c2b39750.tar.gz
mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting
We ran into a funky issue, where someone doing 256K buffered reads saw 128K requests at the device level. Turns out it is read-ahead capping the request size, since we use 128K as the default setting. This doesn't make a lot of sense - if someone is issuing 256K reads, they should see 256K reads, regardless of the read-ahead setting, if the underlying device can support a 256K read in a single command. This patch introduces a bdi hint, io_pages. This is the soft max IO size for the lower level, I've hooked it up to the bdev settings here. Read-ahead is modified to issue the maximum of the user request size, and the read-ahead max size, but capped to the max request size on the device side. The latter is done to avoid reading ahead too much, if the application asks for a huge read. With this patch, the kernel behaves like the application expects. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479498073-8657-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/readahead.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/readahead.c39
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index c8a955b1297e..c4ca70239233 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -207,12 +207,21 @@ out:
* memory at once.
*/
int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
- pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
+ pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host);
+ struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra;
+ unsigned long max_pages;
+
if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages))
return -EINVAL;
- nr_to_read = min(nr_to_read, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host)->ra_pages);
+ /*
+ * If the request exceeds the readahead window, allow the read to
+ * be up to the optimal hardware IO size
+ */
+ max_pages = max_t(unsigned long, bdi->io_pages, ra->ra_pages);
+ nr_to_read = min(nr_to_read, max_pages);
while (nr_to_read) {
int err;
@@ -369,10 +378,18 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset,
unsigned long req_size)
{
- unsigned long max = ra->ra_pages;
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(mapping->host);
+ unsigned long max_pages = ra->ra_pages;
pgoff_t prev_offset;
/*
+ * If the request exceeds the readahead window, allow the read to
+ * be up to the optimal hardware IO size
+ */
+ if (req_size > max_pages && bdi->io_pages > max_pages)
+ max_pages = min(req_size, bdi->io_pages);
+
+ /*
* start of file
*/
if (!offset)
@@ -385,7 +402,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
if ((offset == (ra->start + ra->size - ra->async_size) ||
offset == (ra->start + ra->size))) {
ra->start += ra->size;
- ra->size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max);
+ ra->size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max_pages);
ra->async_size = ra->size;
goto readit;
}
@@ -400,16 +417,16 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start;
rcu_read_lock();
- start = page_cache_next_hole(mapping, offset + 1, max);
+ start = page_cache_next_hole(mapping, offset + 1, max_pages);
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (!start || start - offset > max)
+ if (!start || start - offset > max_pages)
return 0;
ra->start = start;
ra->size = start - offset; /* old async_size */
ra->size += req_size;
- ra->size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max);
+ ra->size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max_pages);
ra->async_size = ra->size;
goto readit;
}
@@ -417,7 +434,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
/*
* oversize read
*/
- if (req_size > max)
+ if (req_size > max_pages)
goto initial_readahead;
/*
@@ -433,7 +450,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
* Query the page cache and look for the traces(cached history pages)
* that a sequential stream would leave behind.
*/
- if (try_context_readahead(mapping, ra, offset, req_size, max))
+ if (try_context_readahead(mapping, ra, offset, req_size, max_pages))
goto readit;
/*
@@ -444,7 +461,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
initial_readahead:
ra->start = offset;
- ra->size = get_init_ra_size(req_size, max);
+ ra->size = get_init_ra_size(req_size, max_pages);
ra->async_size = ra->size > req_size ? ra->size - req_size : ra->size;
readit:
@@ -454,7 +471,7 @@ readit:
* the resulted next readahead window into the current one.
*/
if (offset == ra->start && ra->size == ra->async_size) {
- ra->async_size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max);
+ ra->async_size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max_pages);
ra->size += ra->async_size;
}