Re: [PATCH 5/8] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Tue Nov 29 2011 - 07:29:57 EST


> int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
> pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read)
> {
> + struct file_ra_state fadvice_ra = {
> + .pattern = RA_PATTERN_FADVISE,
> + };
> int ret = 0;
>
> if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages))
> @@ -222,8 +397,9 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad
>
> if (this_chunk > nr_to_read)
> this_chunk = nr_to_read;
> - err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
> - offset, this_chunk, 0);
> + fadvice_ra.start = offset;
> + fadvice_ra.size = this_chunk;
> + err = ra_submit(&fadvice_ra, mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
> if (err < 0) {
> ret = err;
> break;

It looks that we can safely use filp->f_ra:

@@ -214,6 +386,7 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad
if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages))
return -EINVAL;

+ filp->f_ra.pattern = RA_PATTERN_FADVISE;
nr_to_read = max_sane_readahead(nr_to_read);
while (nr_to_read) {
int err;
@@ -222,8 +395,9 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad

if (this_chunk > nr_to_read)
this_chunk = nr_to_read;
- err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,
- offset, this_chunk, 0);
+ filp->f_ra.start = offset;
+ filp->f_ra.size = this_chunk;
+ err = ra_submit(&filp->f_ra, mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read);
if (err < 0) {
ret = err;
break;

But still, it adds one more function call to the fadvise path.

Thanks,
Fengguang
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