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Commit 1fca3a05 authored by Hisashi Hifumi's avatar Hisashi Hifumi Committed by Mark Fasheh
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ocfs2: Pagecache usage optimization on ocfs2



A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.
"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
parent 6ca497a8
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