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DateWed, 24 May 2006 19:13:09 +0800
FromWu Fengguang <>
Subject[PATCH 23/33] readahead: backward prefetching method
Readahead policy for reading backward.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---
 mm/readahead.c |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/readahead.c
@@ -1574,6 +1574,46 @@ initial_readahead(struct address_space *
 }
 
 /*
+ * Backward prefetching.
+ *
+ * No look-ahead and thrashing safety guard: should be unnecessary.
+ */
+static int
+try_read_backward(struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t begin_index,
+			unsigned long ra_size, unsigned long ra_max)
+{
+	pgoff_t end_index;
+
+	/* Are we reading backward? */
+	if (begin_index > ra->prev_page)
+		return 0;
+
+	if ((ra->flags & RA_CLASS_MASK) == RA_CLASS_BACKWARD &&
+					ra_has_index(ra, ra->prev_page)) {
+		ra_size += 2 * ra_cache_hit(ra, 0);
+		end_index = ra->la_index;
+	} else {
+		ra_size += ra_size + ra_size * (readahead_hit_rate - 1) / 2;
+		end_index = ra->prev_page;
+	}
+
+	if (ra_size > ra_max)
+		ra_size = ra_max;
+
+	/* Read traces close enough to be covered by the prefetching? */
+	if (end_index > begin_index + ra_size)
+		return 0;
+
+	begin_index = end_index - ra_size;
+
+	ra_set_class(ra, RA_CLASS_BACKWARD);
+	ra_set_index(ra, begin_index, begin_index);
+	ra_set_size(ra, ra_size, 0);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+/*
  * ra_min is mainly determined by the size of cache memory. Reasonable?
  *
  * Table of concrete numbers for 4KB page size:
--
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