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DateThu, 15 Jan 2009 12:00:25 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
Subject[patch 83/94] nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages
2.6.28-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

commit 136221fc3219b3805c48db5da065e8e3467175d4 upstream.

aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only
be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not
necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags.

The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS
readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will
clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead.

More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim,
one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io()
unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals,
assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one
and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io()
in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage().

Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/nfs/read.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -533,12 +533,6 @@ readpage_async_filler(void *data, struct
 	unsigned int len;
 	int error;
 
-	error = nfs_wb_page(inode, page);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_unlock;
-	if (PageUptodate(page))
-		goto out_unlock;
-
 	len = nfs_page_length(page);
 	if (len == 0)
 		return nfs_return_empty_page(page);


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