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| author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2020-06-01 21:46:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-02 10:59:07 -0700 |
| commit | 2d8163e4899dad92175eedd1c2326c875eaa74fa (patch) | |
| tree | 61764d0d42d61e5bac5b94b56be6a8d18f751961 /mm/readahead.c | |
| parent | 2c684234d36f7e8c80414e4a772911d407e821fa (diff) | |
| download | linux-2d8163e4899dad92175eedd1c2326c875eaa74fa.tar.bz2 | |
mm: document why we don't set PageReadahead
If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-15-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/readahead.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/readahead.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index ae231a5312cb..73cb59ed5cff 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping, if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) { /* - * Page already present? Kick off the current batch of - * contiguous pages before continuing with the next - * batch. + * Page already present? Kick off the current batch + * of contiguous pages before continuing with the + * next batch. This page may be the one we would + * have intended to mark as Readahead, but we don't + * have a stable reference to this page, and it's + * not worth getting one just for that. */ read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, true); continue; |