The patch titled mm: introduce PG_readahead has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-introduce-pg_readahead.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: introduce PG_readahead From: Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead. It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to invoke the adaptive read-ahead logic! For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until it runs out of cached pages. ;-) Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 6 ++++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-introduce-pg_readahead include/linux/page-flags.h --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-introduce-pg_readahead +++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ #define PG_nosave_free 18 /* Used for system suspend/resume */ #define PG_buddy 19 /* Page is free, on buddy lists */ +#define PG_readahead 20 /* Reminder to do read-ahead */ + #if (BITS_PER_LONG > 32) /* @@ -251,6 +253,10 @@ static inline void SetPageUptodate(struc #define SetPageUncached(page) set_bit(PG_uncached, &(page)->flags) #define ClearPageUncached(page) clear_bit(PG_uncached, &(page)->flags) +#define PageReadahead(page) test_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags) +#define SetPageReadahead(page) set_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags) +#define ClearPageReadahead(page) clear_bit(PG_readahead, &(page)->flags) + struct page; /* forward declaration */ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page); diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-introduce-pg_readahead mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-introduce-pg_readahead +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *pa if (PageReserved(page)) return 1; - page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | + page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | 1 << PG_readahead | 1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_arch_1 | 1 << PG_checked | 1 << PG_mappedtodisk); set_page_private(page, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are readahead-kconfig-options.patch radixtree-introduce-scan-hole-data-functions.patch mm-introduce-probe_page.patch mm-introduce-pg_readahead.patch readahead-add-look-ahead-support-to-__do_page_cache_readahead.patch readahead-insert-cond_resched-calls.patch readahead-minmax_ra_pages.patch readahead-events-accounting.patch readahead-rescue_pages.patch readahead-sysctl-parameters.patch readahead-min-max-sizes.patch readahead-state-based-method-aging-accounting.patch readahead-state-based-method-routines.patch readahead-state-based-method.patch readahead-context-based-method.patch readahead-initial-method-guiding-sizes.patch readahead-initial-method-thrashing-guard-size.patch readahead-initial-method-user-recommended-size.patch readahead-initial-method.patch readahead-backward-prefetching-method.patch readahead-thrashing-recovery-method.patch readahead-call-scheme.patch readahead-laptop-mode.patch readahead-loop-case.patch readahead-nfsd-case.patch readahead-turn-on-by-default.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-of-max_sectors_kb-on-read_ahead_kb.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html