[PATCH 1/9] readahead: simplify readahead call scheme

[Fengguang Wu]

It is insane and error-prone to insist on the call sites to check for async
readahead after doing any sync one. I.e. whenever someone do a sync readahead:

				if (!page)
					page_cache_sync_readahead(...);

He must try async readahead, too:

				page = find_get_page(...);
				if (PageReadahead(page))
					page_cache_async_readahead(...);

The tricky point is that PG_readahead could be set by a sync readahead for the
_current_ newly faulted in page, and the readahead code simply expects one more
callback to handle it. If the caller fails to do so, it will miss the
PG_readahead bits and never able to start an async readahead.

Avoid it by piggy-backing the async part _inside_ the readahead code.

Now if an async readahead should be started immediately after a sync one,
the readahead logic itself will do it. So the following code becomes valid:

				if (!page)
					page_cache_sync_readahead(...);
				else if (PageReadahead(page))
					page_cache_async_readahead(...);

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/readahead.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.24-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc4-mm1/mm/readahead.c
@@ -402,6 +402,14 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space 
 	ra->async_size = ra->size > req_size ? ra->size - req_size : ra->size;
 
 readit:
+	/*
+	 * An async readahead should be triggered immediately.
+	 * Instead of demanding all call sites to check for async readahead
+	 * immediate after a sync one, start the async part now and here.
+	 */
+	if (!hit_readahead_marker && ra->size == ra->async_size)
+		ra->size *= 2;
+
 	return ra_submit(ra, mapping, filp);
 }
 

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