[PATCH 19/33] readahead: initial method - thrashing guard size

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backing_dev_info.ra_thrash_bytes is dynamicly updated to be a little above
the thrashing safe read-ahead size. It is used in the initial method where
the thrashing threshold for the particular reader is still unknown.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
---

 mm/readahead.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/readahead.c
@@ -817,6 +817,22 @@ out:
 }
 
 /*
+ * Update `backing_dev_info.ra_thrash_bytes' to be a _biased_ average of
+ * read-ahead sizes. Which makes it an a-bit-risky(*) estimation of the
+ * _minimal_ read-ahead thrashing threshold on the device.
+ *
+ * (*) Note that being a bit risky can _help_ overall performance.
+ */
+static inline void update_ra_thrash_bytes(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+						unsigned long ra_size)
+{
+	ra_size <<= PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+	bdi->ra_thrash_bytes = (bdi->ra_thrash_bytes < ra_size) ?
+				(ra_size + bdi->ra_thrash_bytes * 1023) / 1024:
+				(ra_size + bdi->ra_thrash_bytes *    7) /    8;
+}
+
+/*
  * The node's effective length of inactive_list(s).
  */
 static unsigned long node_free_and_cold_pages(void)
@@ -1180,6 +1196,10 @@ state_based_readahead(struct address_spa
 	if (!adjust_rala(growth_limit, &ra_size, &la_size))
 		return 0;
 
+	/* ra_size in its _steady_ state reflects thrashing threshold */
+	if (page && ra_old + ra_old / 8 >= ra_size)
+		update_ra_thrash_bytes(mapping->backing_dev_info, ra_size);
+
 	ra_set_class(ra, RA_CLASS_STATE);
 	ra_set_index(ra, index, ra->readahead_index);
 	ra_set_size(ra, ra_size, la_size);

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