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Subject[PATCH 13/16] readahead: laptop mode support
When the laptop drive is spinned down, defer look-ahead to spin up time.

The implementation employs a poll based method, for performance is not a
concern in this code path. The poll interval is 64KB, which should be small
enough for movies/musics. The user space application is responsible for
proper caching to hide the spin-up-and-read delay.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
For crazy laptop users who prefer aggressive read-ahead, here is the way:

# echo 1000 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio
# blockdev --setra 524280 /dev/hda # this is the max possible value

Notes:
- It is still an untested feature.
- It is safer to use blockdev+fadvise to increase ra-max for a single file,
which needs patching your movie player.
- Be sure to restore them to sane values in normal operations!

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---

include/linux/writeback.h | 6 ++++++
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
mm/readahead.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux.orig/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ linux/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ void laptop_io_completion(void);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void);

+extern struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer;
+static inline int laptop_spinned_down(void)
+{
+ return !timer_pending(&laptop_mode_wb_timer);
+}
+
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;
extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
--- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static void wb_timer_fn(unsigned long un
static void laptop_timer_fn(unsigned long unused);

static DEFINE_TIMER(wb_timer, wb_timer_fn, 0, 0);
-static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);
+DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0);

/*
* Periodic writeback of "old" data.
--- linux.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux/mm/readahead.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>

/* The default max/min read-ahead pages. */
#define KB(size) (((size)*1024 + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
@@ -1029,6 +1030,30 @@ out:
}

/*
+ * Set a new look-ahead mark at @new_index.
+ * Return 0 if the new mark is successfully set.
+ */
+static inline int renew_lookahead(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct file_ra_state *ra,
+ pgoff_t index, pgoff_t new_index)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+
+ if (index == ra->lookahead_index &&
+ new_index >= ra->readahead_index)
+ return 1;
+
+ page = find_page(mapping, new_index);
+ if (!page)
+ return 1;
+
+ SetPageReadahead(page);
+ if (ra->lookahead_index == index)
+ ra->lookahead_index = new_index;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* State based calculation of read-ahead request.
*
* This figure shows the meaning of file_ra_state members:
@@ -1930,6 +1955,11 @@ page_cache_readahead_adaptive(struct add
end_index - index);
return 0;
}
+ if (laptop_mode && laptop_spinned_down()) {
+ if (!renew_lookahead(mapping, ra, index,
+ index + LAPTOP_POLL_INTERVAL))
+ return 0;
+ }
}

if (page)
--
-
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