linux/mm
Andrew Morton d8733c2956 [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead
Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when
ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory.  So for large
directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck.

So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead().  This means
that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop.

Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state,
but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's
address_space.  Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this.

Tested with printk.  It works.  I was struggling to find a real workload which
actually cared.

(The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules)

Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
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bootmem.c [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe 2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] mm: make __put_page internal 2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] mm: hugetlb alloc_fresh_huge_page bogus node loop fix 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/ 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK 2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] hugepage: Fix hugepage logic in free_pgtables() harder 2006-03-22 07:54:04 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotadd: pgdat->node_present_pages fix 2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] mm: kill kmem_cache_t usage 2006-03-22 07:53:58 -08:00
migrate.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] remove VM_DONTCOPY bogosities 2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages 2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mm: nommu use compound pages 2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] out_of_memory() locking fix 2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] mm: dirty_exceeded speedup 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] drain_node_pages: interrupt latency reduction / optimization 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead 2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: more CONFIG_DEBUG_VM 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] shmem: inline to avoid warning 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] mm: slab cache interleave rotor fix 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] SLOB=y && SMP=y fix 2006-02-08 07:52:58 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] mm: less atomic ops 2006-03-22 07:53:57 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] swsusp: userland interface 2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00