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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] readahead: tag metadata call sites
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:05:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120127031326.881533433@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20120127030524.854259561@intel.com

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We may be doing more metadata readahead in future.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 fs/ext3/dir.c      |    1 +
 fs/ext4/dir.c      |    1 +
 include/linux/fs.h |    1 +
 mm/readahead.c     |    1 +
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- linux-next.orig/fs/ext3/dir.c	2012-01-25 15:57:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/ext3/dir.c	2012-01-25 15:57:52.000000000 +0800
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static int ext3_readdir(struct file * fi
 			pgoff_t index = map_bh.b_blocknr >>
 					(PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits);
 			if (!ra_has_index(&filp->f_ra, index))
+				filp->f_ra.for_metadata = 1;
 				page_cache_sync_readahead(
 					sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
 					&filp->f_ra, filp,
--- linux-next.orig/fs/ext4/dir.c	2012-01-25 15:57:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/ext4/dir.c	2012-01-25 15:57:52.000000000 +0800
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static int ext4_readdir(struct file *fil
 			pgoff_t index = map.m_pblk >>
 					(PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits);
 			if (!ra_has_index(&filp->f_ra, index))
+				filp->f_ra.for_metadata = 1;
 				page_cache_sync_readahead(
 					sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
 					&filp->f_ra, filp,
--- linux-next.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2012-01-25 15:57:51.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/linux/fs.h	2012-01-25 15:57:52.000000000 +0800
@@ -955,6 +955,7 @@ struct file_ra_state {
 	u16 mmap_miss;			/* Cache miss stat for mmap accesses */
 	u8 pattern;			/* one of RA_PATTERN_* */
 	unsigned int for_mmap:1;	/* readahead for mmap accesses */
+	unsigned int for_metadata:1;	/* readahead for meta data */
 
 	loff_t prev_pos;		/* Cache last read() position */
 };
--- linux-next.orig/mm/readahead.c	2012-01-25 15:57:51.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/readahead.c	2012-01-25 15:57:52.000000000 +0800
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ unsigned long ra_submit(struct file_ra_s
 					ra->start, ra->size, ra->async_size);
 
 	ra->for_mmap = 0;
+	ra->for_metadata = 0;
 	return actual;
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-27  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27  3:05 [PATCH 0/9] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more (v4) Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 1/9] readahead: make context readahead more conservative Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] readahead: record readahead patterns Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 3/9] readahead: tag mmap page fault call sites Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] readahead: add vfs/readahead tracing event Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27 16:21   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-27 20:15     ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-29  5:07       ` Wu Fengguang
2012-01-30  4:02       ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] readahead: dont do start-of-file readahead after lseek() Wu Fengguang
2012-01-27  3:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] readahead: snap readahead request to EOF Wu Fengguang
2012-02-09  3:22 ` [PATCH 6/9 update changelog] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2012-02-11  4:31 [PATCH 0/9] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more (v5) Wu Fengguang
2012-02-11  4:31 ` [PATCH 4/9] readahead: tag metadata call sites Wu Fengguang

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