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| author | Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> | 2007-07-19 01:47:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-19 10:04:43 -0700 |
| commit | d77c2d7cc5126639a47d73300b40d461f2811a0f (patch) | |
| tree | d02b32ca92fde9a04be9bee0f0b7c8961479448c /mm | |
| parent | 2ba2d00363975242dee9bb22cf798b487e3cd61e (diff) | |
readahead: introduce PG_readahead
Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead.
It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to
invoke the read-ahead logic. For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until
it runs out of cached pages!
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e2a10b957f2..2165be9462c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags) if (PageReserved(page)) return 1; - page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | + page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | 1 << PG_readahead | 1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_arch_1 | 1 << PG_owner_priv_1 | 1 << PG_mappedtodisk); set_page_private(page, 0); |