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bcache: remove bcache device self-defined readahead
authorColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Jun 2021 12:50:51 +0000 (20:50 +0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 8 Jun 2021 21:06:03 +0000 (15:06 -0600)
commit974a5c3d92d26b5e92f806fc402cf063055eea2c
treef758d65c79e91236d526e32701249caca58addac
parentbd8b6504ac268db4714f6aedd8442f0f1318916d
bcache: remove bcache device self-defined readahead

For read cache missing, bcache defines a readahead size for the read I/O
request to the backing device for the missing data. This readahead size
is initialized to 0, and almost no one uses it to avoid unnecessary read
amplifying onto backing device and write amplifying onto cache device.
Considering upper layer file system code has readahead logic allready
and works fine with readahead_cache_policy sysfile interface, we don't
have to keep bcache self-defined readahead anymore.

This patch removes the bcache self-defined readahead for cache missing
request for backing device, and the readahead sysfs file interfaces are
removed as well.

This is the preparation for next patch to fix potential kernel panic due
to oversized request in a simpler method.

Reported-by: Alexander Ullrich <ealex1979@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Diego Ercolani <diego.ercolani@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jan Szubiak <jan.szubiak@linuxpolska.pl>
Reported-by: Marco Rebhan <me@dblsaiko.net>
Reported-by: Matthias Ferdinand <bcache@mfedv.net>
Reported-by: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Reported-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Rolf Fokkens <rolf@rolffokkens.nl>
Reported-and-tested-by: Thorsten Knabe <linux@thorsten-knabe.de>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607125052.21277-2-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
drivers/md/bcache/request.c
drivers/md/bcache/stats.c
drivers/md/bcache/stats.h
drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c