/* * mm/readahead.c - address_space-level file readahead. * * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds * * 09Apr2002 akpm@zip.com.au * Initial version. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page) { } EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_unplug_io_fn); struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = { .ra_pages = (VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, .state = 0, .unplug_io_fn = default_unplug_io_fn, }; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(default_backing_dev_info); /* * Initialise a struct file's readahead state */ void file_ra_state_init(struct file_ra_state *ra, struct address_space *mapping) { memset(ra, 0, sizeof(*ra)); ra->ra_pages = mapping->backing_dev_info->ra_pages; ra->average = ra->ra_pages / 2; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_ra_state_init); /* * Return max readahead size for this inode in number-of-pages. */ static inline unsigned long get_max_readahead(struct file_ra_state *ra) { return ra->ra_pages; } static inline unsigned long get_min_readahead(struct file_ra_state *ra) { return (VM_MIN_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; } #define list_to_page(head) (list_entry((head)->prev, struct page, lru)) /** * read_cache_pages - populate an address space with some pages, and * start reads against them. * @mapping: the address_space * @pages: The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These * pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised. * @filler: callback routine for filling a single page. * @data: private data for the callback routine. * * Hides the details of the LRU cache etc from the filesystems. */ int read_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, int (*filler)(void *, struct page *), void *data) { struct page *page; struct pagevec lru_pvec; int ret = 0; pagevec_init(&lru_pvec, 0); while (!list_empty(pages)) { page = list_to_page(pages); list_del(&page->lru); if (add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) { page_cache_release(page); continue; } ret = filler(data, page); if (!pagevec_add(&lru_pvec, page)) __pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); if (ret) { while (!list_empty(pages)) { struct page *victim; victim = list_to_page(pages); list_del(&victim->lru); page_cache_release(victim); } break; } } pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cache_pages); static int read_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages) { unsigned page_idx; struct pagevec lru_pvec; int ret = 0; if (mapping->a_ops->readpages) { ret = mapping->a_ops->readpages(filp, mapping, pages, nr_pages); goto out; } pagevec_init(&lru_pvec, 0); for (page_idx = 0; page_idx < nr_pages; page_idx++) { struct page *page = list_to_page(pages); list_del(&page->lru); if (!add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) { mapping->a_ops->readpage(filp, page); if (!pagevec_add(&lru_pvec, page)) __pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); } else { page_cache_release(page); } } pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); out: return ret; } /* * Readahead design. * * The fields in struct file_ra_state represent the most-recently-executed * readahead attempt: * * start: Page index at which we started the readahead * size: Number of pages in that read * Together, these form the "current window". * Together, start and size represent the `readahead window'. * next_size: The number of pages to read on the next readahead miss. * Has the magical value -1UL if readahead has been disabled. * prev_page: The page which the readahead algorithm most-recently inspected. * prev_page is mainly an optimisation: if page_cache_readahead * sees that it is again being called for a page which it just * looked at, it can return immediately without making any state * changes. * ahead_start, * ahead_size: Together, these form the "ahead window". * ra_pages: The externally controlled max readahead for this fd. * * When readahead is in the "maximally shrunk" state (next_size == -1UL), * readahead is disabled. In this state, prev_page and size are used, inside * handle_ra_miss(), to detect the resumption of sequential I/O. Once there * has been a decent run of sequential I/O (defined by get_min_readahead), * readahead is reenabled. * * The readahead code manages two windows - the "current" and the "ahead" * windows. The intent is that while the application is walking the pages * in the current window, I/O is underway on the ahead window. When the * current window is fully traversed, it is replaced by the ahead window * and the ahead window is invalidated. When this copying happens, the * new current window's pages are probably still locked. When I/O has * completed, we submit a new batch of I/O, creating a new ahead window. * * So: * * ----|----------------|----------------|----- * ^start ^start+size * ^ahead_start ^ahead_start+ahead_size * * ^ When this page is read, we submit I/O for the * ahead window. * * A `readahead hit' occurs when a read request is made against a page which is * inside the current window. Hits are good, and the window size (next_size) * is grown aggressively when hits occur. Two pages are added to the next * window size on each hit, which will end up doubling the next window size by * the time I/O is submitted for it. * * If readahead hits are more sparse (say, the application is only reading * every second page) then the window will build more slowly. * * On a readahead miss (the application seeked away) the readahead window is * shrunk by 25%. We don't want to drop it too aggressively, because it is a * good assumption that an application which has built a good readahead window * will continue to perform linear reads. Either at the new file position, or * at the old one after another seek. * * After enough misses, readahead is fully disabled. (next_size = -1UL). * * There is a special-case: if the first page which the application tries to * read happens to be the first page of the file, it is assumed that a linear * read is about to happen and the window is immediately set to half of the * device maximum. * * A page request at (start + size) is not a miss at all - it's just a part of * sequential file reading. * * This function is to be called for every page which is read, rather than when * it is time to perform readahead. This is so the readahead algorithm can * centrally work out the access patterns. This could be costly with many tiny * read()s, so we specifically optimise for that case with prev_page. */ /* * do_page_cache_readahead actually reads a chunk of disk. It allocates all * the pages first, then submits them all for I/O. This avoids the very bad * behaviour which would occur if page allocations are causing VM writeback. * We really don't want to intermingle reads and writes like that. * * Returns the number of pages which actually had IO started against them. */ static inline int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, unsigned long offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct page *page; unsigned long end_index; /* The last page we want to read */ LIST_HEAD(page_pool); int page_idx; int ret = 0; loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode); if (isize == 0) goto out; end_index = ((isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); /* * Preallocate as many pages as we will need. */ spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); for (page_idx = 0; page_idx < nr_to_read; page_idx++) { unsigned long page_offset = offset + page_idx; if (page_offset > end_index) break; page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, page_offset); if (page) continue; spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); page = page_cache_alloc_cold(mapping); spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); if (!page) break; page->index = page_offset; list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool); ret++; } spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); /* * Now start the IO. We ignore I/O errors - if the page is not * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and * will then handle the error. */ if (ret) read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, ret); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool)); out: return ret; } /* * Chunk the readahead into 2 megabyte units, so that we don't pin too much * memory at once. */ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, unsigned long offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) { int ret = 0; if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages)) return -EINVAL; while (nr_to_read) { int err; unsigned long this_chunk = (2 * 1024 * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; if (this_chunk > nr_to_read) this_chunk = nr_to_read; err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, this_chunk); if (err < 0) { ret = err; break; } ret += err; offset += this_chunk; nr_to_read -= this_chunk; } return ret; } /* * This version skips the IO if the queue is read-congested, and will tell the * block layer to abandon the readahead if request allocation would block. * * force_page_cache_readahead() will ignore queue congestion and will block on * request queues. */ int do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, unsigned long offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) { if (!bdi_read_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info)) return __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, nr_to_read); return 0; } /* * Check how effective readahead is being. If the amount of started IO is * less than expected then the file is partly or fully in pagecache and * readahead isn't helping. Shrink the window. * * But don't shrink it too much - the application may read the same page * occasionally. */ static inline void check_ra_success(struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t attempt, pgoff_t actual, pgoff_t orig_next_size) { if (actual == 0) { if (orig_next_size > 1) { ra->next_size = orig_next_size - 1; if (ra->ahead_size) ra->ahead_size = ra->next_size; } else { ra->next_size = -1UL; ra->size = 0; } } } /* * page_cache_readahead is the main function. If performs the adaptive * readahead window size management and submits the readahead I/O. */ void page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file_ra_state *ra, struct file *filp, unsigned long offset) { unsigned max; unsigned orig_next_size; unsigned actual; int first_access=0; unsigned long average; /* * Here we detect the case where the application is performing * sub-page sized reads. We avoid doing extra work and bogusly * perturbing the readahead window expansion logic. * If next_size is zero, this is the very first read for this * file handle, or the window is maximally shrunk. */ if (offset == ra->prev_page) { if (ra->next_size != 0) goto out; } if (ra->next_size == -1UL) goto out; /* Maximally shrunk */ max = get_max_readahead(ra); if (max == 0) goto out; /* No readahead */ orig_next_size = ra->next_size; if (ra->next_size == 0) { /* * Special case - first read. * We'll assume it's a whole-file read, and * grow the window fast. */ first_access=1; ra->next_size = max / 2; ra->prev_page = offset; ra->serial_cnt++; goto do_io; } if (offset == ra->prev_page + 1) { if (ra->serial_cnt <= (max * 2)) ra->serial_cnt++; } else { /* * to avoid rounding errors, ensure that 'average' * tends towards the value of ra->serial_cnt. */ average = ra->average; if (average < ra->serial_cnt) { average++; } ra->average = (average + ra->serial_cnt) / 2; ra->serial_cnt = 1; } ra->prev_page = offset; if (offset >= ra->start && offset <= (ra->start + ra->size)) { /* * A readahead hit. Either inside the window, or one * page beyond the end. Expand the next readahead size. */ ra->next_size += 2; } else { /* * A miss - lseek, pagefault, pread, etc. Shrink the readahead * window. */ ra->next_size -= 2; } if ((long)ra->next_size > (long)max) ra->next_size = max; if ((long)ra->next_size <= 0L) { ra->next_size = -1UL; ra->size = 0; goto out; /* Readahead is off */ } /* * Is this request outside the current window? */ if (offset < ra->start || offset >= (ra->start + ra->size)) { /* * A miss against the current window. Have we merely * advanced into the ahead window? */ if (offset == ra->ahead_start) { /* * Yes, we have. The ahead window now becomes * the current window. */ ra->start = ra->ahead_start; ra->size = ra->ahead_size; ra->prev_page = ra->start; ra->ahead_start = 0; ra->ahead_size = 0; /* * Control now returns, probably to sleep until I/O * completes against the first ahead page. * When the second page in the old ahead window is * requested, control will return here and more I/O * will be submitted to build the new ahead window. */ goto out; } do_io: /* * This is the "unusual" path. We come here during * startup or after an lseek. We invalidate the * ahead window and get some I/O underway for the new * current window. */ if (!first_access) { /* Heuristic: there is a high probability * that around ra->average number of * pages shall be accessed in the next * current window. */ average = ra->average; if (ra->serial_cnt > average) average = (ra->serial_cnt + ra->average + 1) / 2; ra->next_size = min(average , (unsigned long)max); } ra->start = offset; ra->size = ra->next_size; ra->ahead_start = 0; /* Invalidate these */ ra->ahead_size = 0; actual = do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, ra->size); if(!first_access) { /* * do not adjust the readahead window size the first * time, the ahead window might get closed if all * the pages are already in the cache. */ check_ra_success(ra, ra->size, actual, orig_next_size); } } else { /* * This read request is within the current window. It may be * time to submit I/O for the ahead window while the * application is about to step into the ahead window. */ if (ra->ahead_start == 0) { /* * If the average io-size is more than maximum * readahead size of the file the io pattern is * sequential. Hence bring in the readahead window * immediately. * If the average io-size is less than maximum * readahead size of the file the io pattern is * random. Hence don't bother to readahead. */ average = ra->average; if (ra->serial_cnt > average) average = (ra->serial_cnt + ra->average + 1) / 2; if (average > max) { ra->ahead_start = ra->start + ra->size; ra->ahead_size = ra->next_size; actual = do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, ra->ahead_start, ra->ahead_size); check_ra_success(ra, ra->ahead_size, actual, orig_next_size); } } } out: return; } /* * handle_ra_miss() is called when it is known that a page which should have * been present in the pagecache (we just did some readahead there) was in fact * not found. This will happen if it was evicted by the VM (readahead * thrashing) or if the readahead window is maximally shrunk. * * If the window has been maximally shrunk (next_size == -1UL) then look to see * if we are getting misses against sequential file offsets. If so, and this * persists then resume readahead. * * Otherwise we're thrashing, so shrink the readahead window by three pages. * This is because it is grown by two pages on a readahead hit. Theory being * that the readahead window size will stabilise around the maximum level at * which there is no thrashing. */ void handle_ra_miss(struct address_space *mapping, struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t offset) { if (ra->next_size == -1UL) { const unsigned long max = get_max_readahead(ra); if (offset != ra->prev_page + 1) { ra->size = ra->size?ra->size-1:0; /* Not sequential */ } else { ra->size++; /* A sequential read */ if (ra->size >= max) { /* Resume readahead */ ra->start = offset - max; ra->next_size = max; ra->size = max; ra->ahead_start = 0; ra->ahead_size = 0; ra->average = max / 2; } } ra->prev_page = offset; } else { const unsigned long min = get_min_readahead(ra); ra->next_size -= 3; if (ra->next_size < min) ra->next_size = min; } } /* * Given a desired number of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE readahead pages, return a * sensible upper limit. */ unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr) { unsigned long active; unsigned long inactive; unsigned long free; get_zone_counts(&active, &inactive, &free); return min(nr, (inactive + free) / 2); }