[PATCH 04/28] mm: introduce PG_readahead

[Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>]

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 adaptive read-ahead logic!
	For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until it runs out of
	cached pages.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
--- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2.orig/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@
 #define PG_nosave_free		18	/* Used for system suspend/resume */
 #define PG_buddy		19	/* Page is free, on buddy lists */
 
+#define PG_readahead		20	/* Reminder to do read-ahead */
+
 
 #if (BITS_PER_LONG > 32)
 /*
@@ -247,6 +249,10 @@ static inline void SetPageUptodate(struc
 #define SetPageUncached(page)	set_bit(PG_uncached, &(page)->flags)
 #define ClearPageUncached(page)	clear_bit(PG_uncached, &(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)
+
 struct page;	/* forward declaration */
 
 int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page);
--- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *pa
 	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_fs_misc | 1 << PG_mappedtodisk);
 	set_page_private(page, 0);

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