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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/8] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:56:38PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:18:19PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I'm getting around to pick up the readahead works again :-)
> >
> > This first series is mainly to add some debug facilities, to support the long
> > missed backwards prefetching capability, and some old patches that somehow get
> > delayed (shame me).
> >
> > The next step would be to better handle the readahead thrashing situations.
> > That would require rewriting part of the algorithms, this is why I'd like to
> > keep the backwards prefetching simple and stupid for now.
> >
> > When (almost) free of readahead thrashing, we'll be in a good position to lift
> > the default readahead size. Which I suspect would be the single most efficient
> > way to improve performance for the large volumes of casually maintained Linux
> > file servers.
>
> Btw, if you work actively in that area I have a todo list item I was
> planning to look into sooner or later: instead of embedding the ra
> state into the struct file allocate it dynamically. That way files that
> either don't use the pagecache, or aren't read from won't need have to
> pay the price for increasing struct file size, and if we have to we
> could enlarge it more easily.

Agreed. That's good to have, please allow me to move it into my todo list :)

> Besides removing f_version in the common
> struct file and also allocting f_owner separately that seem to be the
> easiest ways to get struct file size down.

Yeah, there seems no much code accessing fown_struct.
I may consider that when I'm at file_ra_state, but no promise ;)

Thanks,
Fengguang


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