The patch titled readahead: convert splice invocations has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was readahead-convert-splice-invocations.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: readahead: convert splice invocations From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Convert splice reads to use on-demand readahead. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/splice.c | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/splice.c~readahead-convert-splice-invocations fs/splice.c --- a/fs/splice.c~readahead-convert-splice-invocations +++ a/fs/splice.c @@ -287,12 +287,6 @@ __generic_file_splice_read(struct file * nr_pages = PIPE_BUFFERS; /* - * Don't try to 2nd guess the read-ahead logic, call into - * page_cache_readahead() like the page cache reads would do. - */ - page_cache_readahead(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, index, nr_pages); - - /* * Lookup the (hopefully) full range of pages we need. */ spd.nr_pages = find_get_pages_contig(mapping, index, nr_pages, pages); @@ -310,11 +304,8 @@ __generic_file_splice_read(struct file * */ page = find_get_page(mapping, index); if (!page) { - /* - * Make sure the read-ahead engine is notified - * about this failure. - */ - handle_ra_miss(mapping, &in->f_ra, index); + page_cache_readahead_ondemand(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, + NULL, index, nr_pages - spd.nr_pages); /* * page didn't exist, allocate one. @@ -361,6 +352,10 @@ __generic_file_splice_read(struct file * this_len = min_t(unsigned long, len, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - loff); page = pages[page_nr]; + if (PageReadahead(page)) + page_cache_readahead_ondemand(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, + page, index, nr_pages - page_nr); + /* * If the page isn't uptodate, we may need to start io on it */ @@ -453,6 +448,7 @@ fill_it: */ while (page_nr < nr_pages) page_cache_release(pages[page_nr++]); + in->f_ra.prev_index = index; if (spd.nr_pages) return splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.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