arm64: readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection
authorMark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:39:50 +0000 (21:39 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:14:18 +0000 (22:14 -0400)
[ Upstream commit 569ba74a7ba69f46ce2950bf085b37fea2408385 ]

This is the arm64 portion of commit 45cac65b0fcd ("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: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c

index 41cb6d3d607582043fa3a0a6caf6469d8e73b159..6094c64b338061d33693ec3703e0d824156901e2 100644 (file)
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ retry:
                         * starvation.
                         */
                        mm_flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
+                       mm_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
                        goto retry;
                }
        }