The patch titled readahead: call scheme: catch thrashing on lookahead time has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was readahead-call-scheme-catch-thrashing-on-lookahead-time.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: readahead: call scheme: catch thrashing on lookahead time From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Move the call to thrashing_recovery_readahead() before state_based_readahead(). That catches the rare case where thrashing happened on the time we are to read the page at ra->lookahead_index. Obviously this case should be handled by thrashing_recovery_readahead() instead of state_based_readahead(). Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/readahead.c~readahead-call-scheme-catch-thrashing-on-lookahead-time mm/readahead.c --- a/mm/readahead.c~readahead-call-scheme-catch-thrashing-on-lookahead-time +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -1641,6 +1641,13 @@ page_cache_readahead_adaptive(struct add return initial_readahead(mapping, filp, ra, req_size); /* + * Recover from possible thrashing. + */ + if (!page && offset - ra->prev_index <= 1 && ra_has_index(ra, offset)) + return thrashing_recovery_readahead(mapping, filp, ra, + offset, ra_max); + + /* * State based sequential read-ahead. */ if (offset == ra->prev_index + 1 && @@ -1650,13 +1657,6 @@ page_cache_readahead_adaptive(struct add offset, req_size, ra_max); /* - * Recover from possible thrashing. - */ - if (!page && offset - ra->prev_index <= 1 && ra_has_index(ra, offset)) - return thrashing_recovery_readahead(mapping, filp, ra, - offset, ra_max); - - /* * Backward read-ahead. */ if (!page && try_backward_prefetching(ra, offset, req_size, ra_max)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch readahead-call-scheme-catch-thrashing-on-lookahead-time.patch readahead-call-scheme-doc-fixes-for-readahead.patch readahead-laptop-mode.patch readahead-loop-case.patch readahead-nfsd-case.patch readahead-remove-parameter-ra_max-from-thrashing_recovery_readahead.patch readahead-remove-parameter-ra_max-from-adjust_rala.patch readahead-state-based-method-protect-against-tiny-size.patch readahead-rename-state_based_readahead-to-clock_based_readahead.patch readahead-account-i-o-block-times-for-stock-readahead.patch readahead-rescue_pages-updates.patch readahead-remove-noaction-shrink-events.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-of-max_sectors_kb-on-read_ahead_kb.patch readahead-partial-sendfile-fix.patch readahead-turn-on-by-default.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