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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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| .. | ||
| allocpercpu.c | ||
| backing-dev.c | ||
| bootmem.c | ||
| bounce.c | ||
| fadvise.c | ||
| filemap_xip.c | ||
| filemap.c | ||
| filemap.h | ||
| fremap.c | ||
| highmem.c | ||
| hugetlb.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| madvise.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| memory_hotplug.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| mempolicy.c | ||
| mempool.c | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mincore.c | ||
| mlock.c | ||
| mmap.c | ||
| mmzone.c | ||
| mprotect.c | ||
| mremap.c | ||
| msync.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| oom_kill.c | ||
| page_alloc.c | ||
| page_io.c | ||
| page-writeback.c | ||
| pdflush.c | ||
| prio_tree.c | ||
| quicklist.c | ||
| readahead.c | ||
| rmap.c | ||
| shmem_acl.c | ||
| shmem.c | ||
| slab.c | ||
| slob.c | ||
| slub.c | ||
| sparse.c | ||
| swap_state.c | ||
| swap.c | ||
| swapfile.c | ||
| thrash.c | ||
| tiny-shmem.c | ||
| truncate.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vmalloc.c | ||
| vmscan.c | ||
| vmstat.c | ||