Hello! When we were internally testing performance of recent kernels, we have noticed quite variable performance of readahead arising from various quirks in readahead code. So I went on a cleaning spree there. This is a batch of patches resulting out of that. A quick testing in my test VM with the following fio job file: [global] direct=0 ioengine=sync invalidate=1 blocksize=4k size=10g readwrite=read [reader] numjobs=1 shows that this patch series improves the throughput from variable one in 310-340 MB/s range to rather stable one at 350 MB/s. As a side effect these cleanups also address the issue noticed by Bruz Zhang [1]. Honza [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240618114941.5935-1-zhangpengpeng0808@xxxxxxxxx/
