readahead: introduce PG_readahead

Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead.

It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to
invoke the read-ahead logic.  For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until
it runs out of cached pages!

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fengguang Wu 2007-07-19 01:47:55 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2ba2d00363
commit d77c2d7cc5
2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
#define PG_private 11 /* If pagecache, has fs-private data */
#define PG_writeback 12 /* Page is under writeback */
#define PG_readahead 13 /* Reminder to do async read-ahead */
#define PG_compound 14 /* Part of a compound page */
#define PG_swapcache 15 /* Swap page: swp_entry_t in private */
@ -226,6 +227,10 @@ static inline void SetPageUptodate(struct page *page)
#define SetPageMappedToDisk(page) set_bit(PG_mappedtodisk, &(page)->flags)
#define ClearPageMappedToDisk(page) clear_bit(PG_mappedtodisk, &(page)->flags)
#define PageReadahead(page) test_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags)
#define SetPageReadahead(page) set_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags)
#define ClearPageReadahead(page) clear_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags)
#define PageReclaim(page) test_bit(PG_reclaim, &(page)->flags)
#define SetPageReclaim(page) set_bit(PG_reclaim, &(page)->flags)
#define ClearPageReclaim(page) clear_bit(PG_reclaim, &(page)->flags)

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@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)
if (PageReserved(page))
return 1;
page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error |
page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | 1 << PG_readahead |
1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_arch_1 |
1 << PG_owner_priv_1 | 1 << PG_mappedtodisk);
set_page_private(page, 0);