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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:21:28 +0000 (12:21 -0700)
commitd4995db1ea96e5f357b92469c9b6c3ecc6bdfbaa
treec704c4aaa6e8ae74823a81e1972ea7c9e8998e4f
parent67c58ce60024b9b3d9cf203da994bf265aa7e369
mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages

commit 6d2be915e589b58cb11418cbe1f22ff90732b6ac upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/readahead.c