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![]() I added blk_run_backing_dev on page_cache_async_readahead so readahead I/O is unpluged to improve throughput on especially RAID environment. The normal case is, if page N become uptodate at time T(N), then T(N) <= T(N+1) holds. With RAID (and NFS to some degree), there is no strict ordering, the data arrival time depends on runtime status of individual disks, which breaks that formula. So in do_generic_file_read(), just after submitting the async readahead IO request, the current page may well be uptodate, so the page won't be locked, and the block device won't be implicitly unplugged: if (PageReadahead(page)) page_cache_async_readahead() if (!PageUptodate(page)) goto page_not_up_to_date; //... page_not_up_to_date: lock_page_killable(page); Therefore explicit unplugging can help. Following is the test result with dd. #dd if=testdir/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16384 -2.6.30-rc6 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 224.182 seconds, 76.6 MB/s -2.6.30-rc6-patched 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 206.465 seconds, 83.2 MB/s (7Disks RAID-0 Array) -2.6.30-rc6 1054976+0 records in 1054976+0 records out 17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 212.233 seconds, 81.4 MB/s -2.6.30-rc6-patched 1054976+0 records out 17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 198.878 seconds, 86.9 MB/s (7Disks RAID-5 Array) The patch was found to improve performance with the SCST scsi target driver. See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a0272b440906030714g67eabc5k8f847fb1e538cc62%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=scst-devel [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbust comment layout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: "fix" CONFIG_BLOCK=n] Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Ronald <intercommit@gmail.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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backing-dev.c | ||
bootmem.c | ||
bounce.c | ||
debug-pagealloc.c | ||
dmapool.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
failslab.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
filemap_xip.c | ||
fremap.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
hwpoison-inject.c | ||
init-mm.c | ||
internal.h | ||
Kconfig | ||
Kconfig.debug | ||
kmemcheck.c | ||
kmemleak-test.c | ||
kmemleak.c | ||
ksm.c | ||
maccess.c | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
memcontrol.c | ||
memory-failure.c | ||
memory.c | ||
memory_hotplug.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
migrate.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mm_init.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mmu_context.c | ||
mmu_notifier.c | ||
mmzone.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_cgroup.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
page_isolation.c | ||
pagewalk.c | ||
percpu.c | ||
prio_tree.c | ||
quicklist.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
slab.c | ||
slob.c | ||
slub.c | ||
sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
sparse.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
thrash.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
util.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmscan.c | ||
vmstat.c |