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Commit 6aeff241 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/migrate.c: migrate PG_readahead flag



Currently the migration code doesn't migrate PG_readahead flag.
Theoretically this would incur slight performance loss as the application
might have to ramp its readahead back up again.  Even though such problem
happens, it might be hidden by something else since migration is typically
triggered by compaction and NUMA balancing, any of which should be more
noticeable.

Migrate the flag after end_page_writeback() since it may clear PG_reclaim
flag, which is the same bit as PG_readahead, for the new page.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581640185-95731-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d08221a0
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