squashfs: provide backing_dev_info in order to disable read-ahead
Commit c1f6925e ("mm: put readahead pages in cache earlier") causes the read performance of squashfs to deteriorate.Through testing, we find that the performance will be back by closing the readahead of squashfs. So we want to learn the way of ubifs, provides backing_dev_info and disable read-ahead We tested the following data by fio. squashfs image blocksize=128K test command: fio --name basic --bs=? --filename="/mnt/test_file" --rw=? --iodepth=1 --ioengine=psync --runtime=200 --time_based turn on squashfs readahead in 5.10 kernel bs(k) read/randread MB/s 4 randread 271 128 randread 231 1024 randread 246 4 read 310 128 read 245 1024 read 247 turn off squashfs readahead in 5.10 kernel bs(k) read/randread MB/s 4 randread 293 128 randread 330 1024 randread 363 4 read 338 128 read 360 1024 read 365 turn on squashfs readahead and revert the commit c1f6925e("mm: put readahead pages in cache earlier") in 5.10 kernel bs(k) read/randread MB/s 4 randread 289 128 randread 306 1024 randread 335 4 read 337 128 read 336 1024 read 338 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211116113141.1391026-1-zhengliang6@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zheng Liang <zhengliang6@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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