On 5/24/18 1:43 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018 10:02:52 -0600 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> a_ops->readpages() is only ever used for read-ahead, yet we don't >> flag the IO being submitted as such. Fix that up. Any file system >> that uses mpage_readpages() as it's ->readpages() implementation >> will now get this right. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> fs/mpage.c | 17 +++++++++-------- >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c >> index b7e7f570733a..0a5474237f5e 100644 >> --- a/fs/mpage.c >> +++ b/fs/mpage.c >> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static struct bio * >> do_mpage_readpage(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned nr_pages, >> sector_t *last_block_in_bio, struct buffer_head *map_bh, >> unsigned long *first_logical_block, get_block_t get_block, >> - gfp_t gfp) >> + gfp_t gfp, bool is_readahead) > > That's a lot of arguments. > > I suspect we'll have a faster kernel if we mark this __always_inline. > I think my ancient "This isn't called much at all" over > mpage_readpage() remains true. Almost all callers come in via > mpage_readpages(), which would benefit from the inlining. But mpage.o > gets 1.5k fatter. hm. Was going to send out a v2, but would be nice to get some consensus on what you prefer here. I can either do the struct version, or I can keep it as-is (going from 8 to 9 arguments). For the struct version, I'd prefer to do that as a prep patch, so the functional change is clear. -- Jens Axboe