Re: [PATCH 1/9] readahead: introduce PG_readahead

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On Sat, 19 May 2007 20:30:31 +0800 Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:28:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 06:47:53 +0800 Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead.
> > 
> > Is there any way in which we can avoid adding a new page flag?
> > 
> > We have the advantage that if the kernel very occasionally gets the wrong
> > result for PageReadahead(page), nothing particularly bad will happen, so we
> > can do racy things.
> > 
> > >From a quick peek, it appears that PG_readahead is only ever set against
> > non-uptodate pages.  If true we could perhaps exploit that: say,
> > PageReadahead(page) == PG_referenced && !PG_uptodate?
> 
> PG_uptodate will flip to 1 before the reader touches the page :(

OK.

> However, it may be possible to share the same bit with PG_reclaim or PG_booked.
> Which one would be preferred?

I'd like PG_booked to go away too - I don't think we've put that under the
microscope yet.  If it remains then its scope will be "defined by the
filesystem", so readahead shouldn't use it.  PG_reclaim belongs to core VFS
so that's much better.

Let's not do anything ugly, slow or silly in there, but please do take a
look, see if there is an opportunity here.
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