If ->readpages doesn't process all the pages, then it is best to act as though they weren't requested so that a subsequent readahead can try again. So: - remove any 'ahead' pages from the page cache so they can be loaded with ->readahead() rather then multiple ->read()s - update the file_ra_state to reflect the reads that were actually submitted. This allows ->readpages() to abort early due e.g. to congestion, which will then allow us to remove the inode_read_congested() test from page_Cache_async_ra(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index 73b2bc5302e0..8a97bd408cf6 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -104,7 +104,13 @@ * for necessary resources (e.g. memory or indexing information) to * become available. Pages in the final ``async_size`` may be * considered less urgent and failure to read them is more acceptable. - * They will eventually be read individually using ->readpage(). + * In this case it is best to use delete_from_page_cache() to remove the + * pages from the page cache as is automatically done for pages that + * were not fetched with readahead_page(). This will allow a + * subsequent synchronous read ahead request to try them again. If they + * are left in the page cache, then they will be read individually using + * ->readpage(). + * */ #include <linux/kernel.h> @@ -226,8 +232,17 @@ static void read_pages(struct readahead_control *rac, struct list_head *pages, if (aops->readahead) { aops->readahead(rac); - /* Clean up the remaining pages */ + /* + * Clean up the remaining pages. The sizes in ->ra + * maybe be used to size next read-ahead, so make sure + * they accurately reflect what happened. + */ while ((page = readahead_page(rac))) { + rac->ra->size -= 1; + if (rac->ra->async_size > 0) { + rac->ra->async_size -= 1; + delete_from_page_cache(page); + } unlock_page(page); put_page(page); }