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Commit 569ba74a authored by Mark Salyzyn's avatar Mark Salyzyn Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection

This is the arm64 portion of commit 45cac65b

 ("readahead: fault
retry breaks mmap file read random detection"), which was absent from
the initial port and has since gone unnoticed. The original commit says:

> .fault now can retry.  The retry can break state machine of .fault.  In
> filemap_fault, if page is miss, ra->mmap_miss is increased.  In the second
> try, since the page is in page cache now, ra->mmap_miss is decreased.  And
> these are done in one fault, so we can't detect random mmap file access.
>
> Add a new flag to indicate .fault is tried once.  In the second try, skip
> ra->mmap_miss decreasing.  The filemap_fault state machine is ok with it.

With this change, Mark reports that:

> Random read improves by 250%, sequential read improves by 40%, and
> random write by 400% to an eMMC device with dm crypto wrapped around it.

Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRiley Andrews <riandrews@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent 95485fdc
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