Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/readahead: stop readahead loop if memcg charge fails

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Feb 01 2024 - 08:48:13 EST


On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 06:08:34PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> @@ -247,9 +248,12 @@ void page_cache_ra_unbounded(struct readahead_control *ractl,
> folio = filemap_alloc_folio(gfp_mask, 0);
> if (!folio)
> break;
> - if (filemap_add_folio(mapping, folio, index + i,
> - gfp_mask) < 0) {
> +
> + ret = filemap_add_folio(mapping, folio, index + i, gfp_mask);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> folio_put(folio);
> + if (ret == -ENOMEM)
> + break;

No, that's too early. You've still got a batch of pages which were
successfully added; you have to read them. You were only off by one
line though ;-)

> read_pages(ractl);
> ractl->_index++;
> i = ractl->_index + ractl->_nr_pages - index - 1;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>