Add the backwards prefetching feature. It's pretty simple if we don't
support async prefetching and interleaved reads.
Here is the behavior with an 8-page read sequence from 10000 down to 0.
(The readahead size is a bit large since it's an NFS mount.)
readahead-random(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=10000+8, ra=10000+8-0, async=0) = 8
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9992+8, ra=9968+32-0, async=0) = 32
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9960+8, ra=9840+128-0, async=0) = 128
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9832+8, ra=9584+256-0, async=0) = 256
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9576+8, ra=9072+512-0, async=0) = 512
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9064+8, ra=8048+1024-0, async=0) = 1024
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=8040+8, ra=6128+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=6120+8, ra=4208+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=4200+8, ra=2288+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=2280+8, ra=368+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=360+8, ra=0+368-0, async=0) = 368
And a simple 1-page read sequence from 10000 down to 0.
readahead-random(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=10000+1, ra=10000+1-0, async=0) = 1
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9999+1, ra=9996+4-0, async=0) = 4
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9995+1, ra=9980+16-0, async=0) = 16
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9979+1, ra=9916+64-0, async=0) = 64
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9915+1, ra=9660+256-0, async=0) = 256
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9659+1, ra=9148+512-0, async=0) = 512
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=9147+1, ra=8124+1024-0, async=0) = 1024
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=8123+1, ra=6204+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=6203+1, ra=4284+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=4283+1, ra=2364+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=2363+1, ra=444+1920-0, async=0) = 1920
readahead-backwards(dev=0:16, ino=3948605, req=443+1, ra=0+444-0, async=0) = 444
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
mm/readahead.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
--- linux-next.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2011-11-21 17:17:44.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/linux/fs.h 2011-11-21 17:17:47.000000000 +0800
@@ -964,6 +964,7 @@ enum readahead_pattern {
RA_PATTERN_SUBSEQUENT,
RA_PATTERN_CONTEXT,
RA_PATTERN_MMAP_AROUND,
+ RA_PATTERN_BACKWARDS,
RA_PATTERN_FADVISE,
RA_PATTERN_OVERSIZE,
RA_PATTERN_RANDOM,
--- linux-next.orig/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-21 17:17:45.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-21 17:17:47.000000000 +0800
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static const char * const ra_pattern_nam
[RA_PATTERN_SUBSEQUENT] = "subsequent",
[RA_PATTERN_CONTEXT] = "context",
[RA_PATTERN_MMAP_AROUND] = "around",
+ [RA_PATTERN_BACKWARDS] = "backwards",
[RA_PATTERN_FADVISE] = "fadvise",
[RA_PATTERN_OVERSIZE] = "oversize",
[RA_PATTERN_RANDOM] = "random",
@@ -686,6 +687,19 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space
}
/*
+ * backwards reading
+ */
+ if (offset < ra->start && offset + req_size >= ra->start) {
+ ra_set_pattern(ra, RA_PATTERN_BACKWARDS);
+ ra->size = get_next_ra_size(ra, max);
+ if (ra->size > ra->start)
+ ra->size = ra->start;
+ ra->async_size = 0;
+ ra->start -= ra->size;
+ goto readit;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Query the page cache and look for the traces(cached history pages)
* that a sequential stream would leave behind.
*/
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