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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-03-05 13:42:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-06 11:26:25 -0800
commit0141450f66c3c12a3aaa869748caa64241885cdf (patch)
treecab5f621dafd1f133d915e5c60aea160438a2e11 /include
parent42e49608683ab25fbbbf9c40edb944601e543882 (diff)
readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
This fixes inefficient page-by-page reads on POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. POSIX_FADV_RANDOM used to set ra_pages=0, which leads to poor performance: a 16K read will be carried out in 4 _sync_ 1-page reads. In other places, ra_pages==0 means - it's ramfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs/sysfs/configfs - some IO error happened where multi-page read IO won't help or should be avoided. POSIX_FADV_RANDOM actually want a different semantics: to disable the *heuristic* readahead algorithm, and to use a dumb one which faithfully submit read IO for whatever application requests. So introduce a flag FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. Note that the random hint is not likely to help random reads performance noticeably. And it may be too permissive on huge request size (its IO size is not limited by read_ahead_kb). In Quentin's report (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/24/145), the overall (NFS read) performance of the application increased by 313%! Tested-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.33.x] Cc: <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 45689621a85..be87edcaba0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
*/
#define FMODE_NOCMTIME ((__force fmode_t)2048)
+/* Expect random access pattern */
+#define FMODE_RANDOM ((__force fmode_t)4096)
+
/*
* The below are the various read and write types that we support. Some of
* them include behavioral modifiers that send information down to the