From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>
Add new kernel parameter "readahead=", which allows user to override
the static VM_MAX_READAHEAD=128kb.
CC: Ankit Jain <radical@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
block/blk-core.c | 3 +--
fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 +-
mm/readahead.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- linux-next.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2011-10-19 11:11:14.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2011-11-20 11:09:56.000000000 +0800
@@ -2245,6 +2245,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
+ readahead=nn[KM]
+ Default max readahead size for block devices.
+
+ This default max readahead size may be overrode
+ in some cases, notably NFS, btrfs and software RAID.
+
reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
--- linux-next.orig/block/blk-core.c 2011-11-08 10:18:16.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/block/blk-core.c 2011-11-20 10:49:33.000000000 +0800
@@ -462,8 +462,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_no
if (!q)
return NULL;
- q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages =
- (VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+ q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = default_backing_dev_info.ra_pages;
q->backing_dev_info.state = 0;
q->backing_dev_info.capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY;
q->backing_dev_info.name = "block";
--- linux-next.orig/fs/fuse/inode.c 2011-11-08 10:18:39.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/fuse/inode.c 2011-11-20 10:50:12.000000000 +0800
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ static int fuse_bdi_init(struct fuse_con
int err;
fc->bdi.name = "fuse";
- fc->bdi.ra_pages = (VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+ fc->bdi.ra_pages = default_backing_dev_info.ra_pages;
/* fuse does it's own writeback accounting */
fc->bdi.capabilities = BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB;
--- linux-next.orig/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-20 10:48:57.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-20 11:09:22.000000000 +0800
@@ -18,6 +18,25 @@
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+static int __init config_readahead_size(char *str)
+{
+ unsigned long bytes;
+
+ if (!str)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ bytes = memparse(str, &str);
+ if (*str != '\0')
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* missed 'k'/'m' suffixes? */
+ if (bytes && bytes < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ default_backing_dev_info.ra_pages = bytes / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("readahead", config_readahead_size);
+
/*
* Initialise a struct file's readahead state. Assumes that the caller has
* memset *ra to zero.
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