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mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead...
authorRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:48:23 +0000 (14:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:21:05 +0000 (16:21 -0700)
commite29c43abbc3001a707961a1c3a63d9e05c4f84f1
tree2ee1914fffc6ab056f5b8c958cfa69f506327024
parentee5079f22796c5dcdce0dca35a2edfe988756234
mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages

Currently max_sane_readahead() returns zero on the cpu whose NUMA node
has no local memory which leads to readahead failure.  Fix this
readahead failure by returning minimum of (requested pages, 512).  Users
running applications on a memory-less cpu which needs readahead such as
streaming application see considerable boost in the performance.

Result:

fadvise experiment with FADV_WILLNEED on a PPC machine having memoryless
CPU with 1GB testfile (12 iterations) yielded around 46.66% improvement.

fadvise experiment with FADV_WILLNEED on a x240 machine with 1GB
testfile 32GB* 4G RAM numa machine (12 iterations) showed no impact on
the normal NUMA cases w/ patch.

  Kernel       Avg  Stddev
  base      7.4975   3.92%
  patched   7.4174   3.26%

[Andrew: making return value PAGE_SIZE independent]
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/readahead.c