aha/mm
Hisashi Hifumi 65a80b4c61 readahead: add blk_run_backing_dev
I added blk_run_backing_dev on page_cache_async_readahead so readahead I/O
is unpluged to improve throughput on especially RAID environment.

The normal case is, if page N become uptodate at time T(N), then T(N) <=
T(N+1) holds.  With RAID (and NFS to some degree), there is no strict
ordering, the data arrival time depends on runtime status of individual
disks, which breaks that formula.  So in do_generic_file_read(), just
after submitting the async readahead IO request, the current page may well
be uptodate, so the page won't be locked, and the block device won't be
implicitly unplugged:

               if (PageReadahead(page))
                        page_cache_async_readahead()
                if (!PageUptodate(page))
                                goto page_not_up_to_date;
                //...
page_not_up_to_date:
                lock_page_killable(page);

Therefore explicit unplugging can help.

Following is the test result with dd.

#dd if=testdir/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16384

-2.6.30-rc6
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 224.182 seconds, 76.6 MB/s

-2.6.30-rc6-patched
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 206.465 seconds, 83.2 MB/s

(7Disks RAID-0 Array)

-2.6.30-rc6
1054976+0 records in
1054976+0 records out
17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 212.233 seconds, 81.4 MB/s

-2.6.30-rc6-patched
1054976+0 records out
17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 198.878 seconds, 86.9 MB/s

(7Disks RAID-5 Array)

The patch was found to improve performance with the SCST scsi target
driver.  See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a0272b440906030714g67eabc5k8f847fb1e538cc62%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=scst-devel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbust comment layout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: "fix" CONFIG_BLOCK=n]
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Ronald <intercommit@gmail.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17 15:45:32 -08:00
..
backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: properly __init-annotate helper functions 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
bounce.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: move max_sane_readahead() calls into force_page_cache_readahead() 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap.c direct I/O fallback sync simplification 2009-12-16 12:16:50 -05:00
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: abort a hugepage pool resize if a signal is pending 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig HWPOISON: mention HWPoison in Kconfig entry 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator 2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed" 2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
maccess.c [S390] maccess: add weak attribute to probe_kernel_write 2009-06-12 10:27:37 +02:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile make generic_acl slightly more generic 2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
memcontrol.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-12-16 12:36:49 -08:00
memory-failure.c HWPOISON: Remove stray phrase in a comment 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
memory.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-12-16 12:36:49 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix section mismatch in memory_hotplug.c 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempolicy.c ksm: memory hotremove migration only 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mincore.c mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore() 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: replace stale comments in munlock_vma_page() 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c mm: uncached vma support with writenotify 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
oom_kill.c memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
page_alloc.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-12-16 12:36:49 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm hugetlb: add hugepage support to pagemap 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2009-12-08 10:02:12 +09:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c readahead: add blk_run_backing_dev 2009-12-17 15:45:32 -08:00
rmap.c memcg: make memcg's file mapped consistent with global VM 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
shmem.c Fix breakage in shmem.c 2009-12-16 19:48:48 -05:00
slab.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swapfile.c ksm: let shared pages be swappable 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
util.c fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-12-11 06:44:57 -05:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: simplify code 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00