From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: document why we don't set PageReadahead If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-15-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-document-why-we-dont-set-pagereadahead +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(stru if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) { /* - * Page already present? Kick off the current batch of - * contiguous pages before continuing with the next - * batch. + * Page already present? Kick off the current batch + * of contiguous pages before continuing with the + * next batch. This page may be the one we would + * have intended to mark as Readahead, but we don't + * have a stable reference to this page, and it's + * not worth getting one just for that. */ read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, true); continue; _
