linux/mm
Roman Gushchin 600e19afc5 mm: use only per-device readahead limit
Maximal readahead size is limited now by two values:
 1) by global 2Mb constant (MAX_READAHEAD in max_sane_readahead())
 2) by configurable per-device value* (bdi->ra_pages)

There are devices, which require custom readahead limit.
For instance, for RAIDs it's calculated as number of devices
multiplied by chunk size times 2.

Readahead size can never be larger than bdi->ra_pages * 2 value
(POSIX_FADV_SEQUNTIAL doubles readahead size).

If so, why do we need two limits?
I suggest to completely remove this max_sane_readahead() stuff and
use per-device readahead limit everywhere.

Also, using right readahead size for RAID disks can significantly
increase i/o performance:

before:
  dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100
  100+0 records in
  100+0 records out
  10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 12.9741 s, 808 MB/s

after:
  $ dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100
  100+0 records in
  100+0 records out
  10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 8.91317 s, 1.2 GB/s

(It's an 8-disks RAID5 storage).

This patch doesn't change sys_readahead and madvise(MADV_WILLNEED)
behavior introduced by 6d2be915e5 ("mm/readahead.c: fix readahead
failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages").

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: onstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
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kasan kasan: fix last shadow judgement in memory_is_poisoned_16() 2015-09-17 21:16:07 -07:00
backing-dev.c writeback: remove broken rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() usage in cgwb_bdi_destroy() 2015-10-21 08:17:29 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled 2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: avoid freeing to bootmem after bootmem is done 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
cleancache.c cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug: correct size input to bitmap function 2015-07-17 16:39:54 -07:00
cma.c mm: cma: fix incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation 2015-10-23 17:55:10 +09:00
cma.h mm: cma: mark cma_bitmap_maxno() inline in header 2015-08-14 15:56:32 -07:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: correct to flush migrated pages if pageblock skip happens 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
debug.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapool: fix overflow condition in pool_find_page() 2015-10-01 21:42:35 -04:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
fadvise.c writeback: implement and use inode_congested() 2015-06-02 08:33:35 -06:00
failslab.c debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool() 2015-10-04 11:36:07 +01:00
filemap.c mm: use only per-device readahead limit 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
frame_vector.c mm: fix docbook comment for get_vaddr_frames() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
frontswap.c frontswap: allow multiple backends 2015-06-24 17:49:45 -07:00
gup.c mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c - Support for new MM features in ARCv2 cores (THP, PAE40) 2015-11-03 13:21:09 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse() 2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm: hugetlbfs: skip shared VMAs when unmapping private pages to satisfy a fault 2015-10-01 21:42:35 -04:00
hwpoison-inject.c hwpoison: use page_cgroup_ino for filtering by memcg 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/compaction: correct to flush migrated pages if pageblock skip happens 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
interval_tree.c mm: replace vma->sharead.linear with vma->shared 2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
Kconfig media updates for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-11 16:42:39 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm/debug_pagealloc: remove obsolete Kconfig options 2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
kmemcheck.c mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak.c: remove unneeded initialization of object to NULL 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
ksm.c mm: remove rest of ACCESS_ONCE() usages 2015-04-15 16:35:18 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: replace nr_node_ids for loop with for_each_node() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
maccess.c uaccess: reimplement probe_kernel_address() using probe_kernel_read() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
madvise.c mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
Makefile media updates for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-11 16:42:39 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: make memblock_remove_range() static 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcg: ratify and consolidate over-charge handling 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/page_alloc: remove unused parameter in init_currently_empty_zone() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
memory-failure.c hwpoison: use page_cgroup_ino for filtering by memcg 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
memory.c mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks 2015-10-16 11:42:28 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in mempool_destroy() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
memtest.c memtest: remove unused header files 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
migrate.c mm, migrate: count pages failing all retries in vmstat and tracepoint 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mincore.c mm/mincore: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mlock.c mm/mlock: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: meminit: remove mminit_verify_page_links 2015-06-30 19:44:56 -07:00
mmap.c mm/mmap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifier: add clear_young callback 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: microoptimize zonelist operations 2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
mprotect.c userfaultfd: teach vma_merge to merge across vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
msync.c mm/msync: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
nobootmem.c mm: page_alloc: pass PFN to __free_pages_bootmem 2015-06-30 19:44:55 -07:00
nommu.c mm/nommu: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: remove unnecessary variable 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc: remove unused parameter in init_currently_empty_zone() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
page_counter.c mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse() 2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
page_ext.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
page_io.c fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec 2015-08-13 12:32:00 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_isolation: make set/unset_migratetype_isolate() file-local 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: set correct gfp_mask on page_owner 2015-07-17 16:39:54 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: fix incorrect calculation of available memory for memcg domains 2015-10-12 10:31:13 -06:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers 2015-03-25 16:20:30 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated 2014-09-02 14:46:05 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() 2014-09-02 14:46:02 -04:00
percpu.c mm/percpu: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm,thp: introduce flush_pmd_tlb_range 2015-10-17 17:48:20 +05:30
process_vm_access.c process_vm_access: switch to {compat_,}import_iovec() 2015-04-11 22:27:12 -04:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: use only per-device readahead limit 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
rmap.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
shmem.c shmem: recalculate file inode when fstat 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common.c: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
slab.c mm: slab: only move management objects off-slab for sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
slab.h mm/slab_common.c: clear pointers to per memcg caches on destroy 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
slob.c mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
slub.c mm/slub: calculate start order with reserved in consideration 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: page_cgroup: rename file to mm/swap_cgroup.c 2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
swap.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: /proc/pid/smaps:: show proportional swap share of the mapping 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
truncate.c memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting 2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: avoid mmap_sem read recursion in mcopy_atomic 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
util.c mm/util: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: count number of system-wide flushes 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn() 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: fix sane_reclaim helper for legacy memcg 2015-09-22 15:09:53 -07:00
vmstat.c vmstat: explicitly schedule per-cpu work on the CPU we need it to run on 2015-10-15 13:01:50 -07:00
workingset.c list_lru: add helpers to isolate items 2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
zbud.c mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
zpool.c zpool: add zpool_has_pool() 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
zsmalloc.c mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
zswap.c zswap: change zpool/compressor at runtime 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00