From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EDDC169C4 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C36218AF for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:15:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1548929733; bh=8ta0af5GXjFNyKb5XJuCkDoevoKD/PvAd/s+EaxL3qc=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=0igJfvCpY2Op6CEH8OTfFGt/VJEQKcstaeXeSb4GFLnE00sY7Ypc14nt4Sm8BEHBm yVo6T1KUaz7/bJeAQrt+lrNLWliqTMUHgUcoPQX4B/MhIMy2FcizVSnYdaMOSkbEz2 R4L9tTL39caOYaKT+2JF0E0ucd+ms4c9AA5GD0Zc= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732071AbfAaKPb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:15:31 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51392 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726368AbfAaKPb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:15:31 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF68B010; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:15:28 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Michal Hocko cc: Vlastimil Babka , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Greg KH , Jann Horn , Dominique Martinet , Andy Lutomirski , Dave Chinner , Kevin Easton , Matthew Wilcox , Cyril Hrubis , Tejun Heo , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Daniel Gruss , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/filemap: initiate readahead even if IOCB_NOWAIT is set for the I/O In-Reply-To: <20190131095644.GR18811@dhcp22.suse.cz> Message-ID: References: <20190130124420.1834-1-vbabka@suse.cz> <20190130124420.1834-3-vbabka@suse.cz> <20190131095644.GR18811@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LSU 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Michal Hocko wrote: > > diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c > > index 9f5e323e883e..7bcdd36e629d 100644 > > --- a/mm/filemap.c > > +++ b/mm/filemap.c > > @@ -2075,8 +2075,6 @@ static ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, > > > > page = find_get_page(mapping, index); > > if (!page) { > > - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) > > - goto would_block; > > page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, > > ra, filp, > > index, last_index - index); > > Maybe a stupid question but I am not really familiar with this path but > what exactly does prevent a sync read down page_cache_sync_readahead > path? page_cache_sync_readahead() only submits the read ahead request(s), it doesn't wait for it to finish. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs