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mm: improve cleanup when ->readpages doesn't process all pages 

If ->readpages doesn't process all the pages, then it is best to act as
though they weren't requested so that a subsequent readahead can try
again.

So:

  - remove any 'ahead' pages from the page cache so they can be loaded
    with ->readahead() rather then multiple ->read()s

  - update the file_ra_state to reflect the reads that were actually
    submitted.

This allows ->readpages() to abort early due e.g.  to congestion, which
will then allow us to remove the inode_read_congested() test from
page_Cache_async_ra().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164549983736.9187.16755913785880819183.stgit@noble.brown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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NeilBrown 2022-03-22 14:38:54 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 84dacdbd53
commit 9fd472af84
1 changed files with 17 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -104,7 +104,13 @@
* for necessary resources (e.g. memory or indexing information) to
* become available. Pages in the final ``async_size`` may be
* considered less urgent and failure to read them is more acceptable.
* They will eventually be read individually using ->readpage().
* In this case it is best to use delete_from_page_cache() to remove the
* pages from the page cache as is automatically done for pages that
* were not fetched with readahead_page(). This will allow a
* subsequent synchronous read ahead request to try them again. If they
* are left in the page cache, then they will be read individually using
* ->readpage().
*
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@ -226,8 +232,17 @@ static void read_pages(struct readahead_control *rac, struct list_head *pages,
if (aops->readahead) {
aops->readahead(rac);
/* Clean up the remaining pages */
/*
* Clean up the remaining pages. The sizes in ->ra
* maybe be used to size next read-ahead, so make sure
* they accurately reflect what happened.
*/
while ((page = readahead_page(rac))) {
rac->ra->size -= 1;
if (rac->ra->async_size > 0) {
rac->ra->async_size -= 1;
delete_from_page_cache(page);
}
unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
}