From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:47:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: readahead: add look-ahead support to __do_page_cache_readahead()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~437
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46fc3e7b4e7233a0ac981ac9084b55217318d04d;p=pandora-kernel.git

readahead: add look-ahead support to __do_page_cache_readahead()

Add look-ahead support to __do_page_cache_readahead().

It works by
	- mark the Nth backwards page with PG_readahead,
	(which instructs the page's first reader to invoke readahead)
	- and only do the marking for newly allocated pages.
	(to prevent blindly doing readahead on already cached pages)

Look-ahead is a technique to achieve I/O pipelining:

While the application is working through a chunk of cached pages, the kernel
reads-ahead the next chunk of pages _before_ time of need.  It effectively
hides low level I/O latencies to high level applications.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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