From 2cad401801978b16ac6e43f10b8d60039670fcbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fengguang Wu Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:21:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] readahead: make context readahead more conservative This helps performance on moderately dense random reads on SSD. Transaction-Per-Second numbers provided by Taobao: QPS case ------------------------------------------------------- 7536 disable context readahead totally w/ patch: 7129 slower size rampup and start RA on the 3rd read 6717 slower size rampup w/o patch: 5581 unmodified context readahead Before, readahead will be started whenever reading page N+1 when it happen to read N recently. After patch, we'll only start readahead when *three* random reads happen to access pages N, N+1, N+2. The probability of this happening is extremely low for pure random reads, unless they are very dense, which actually deserves some readahead. Also start with a smaller readahead window. The impact to interleaved sequential reads should be small, because for a long run stream, the the small readahead window rampup phase is negletable. The context readahead actually benefits clustered random reads on HDD whose seek cost is pretty high. However as SSD is increasingly used for random read workloads it's better for the context readahead to concentrate on interleaved sequential reads. Another SSD rand read test from Miao # file size: 2GB # read IO amount: 625MB sysbench --test=fileio \ --max-requests=10000 \ --num-threads=1 \ --file-num=1 \ --file-block-size=64K \ --file-test-mode=rndrd \ --file-fsync-freq=0 \ --file-fsync-end=off run shows the performance of btrfs grows up from 69MB/s to 121MB/s, ext4 from 104MB/s to 121MB/s. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Tested-by: Tao Ma Tested-by: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/readahead.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index 829a77c62834..e4ed04149785 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -371,10 +371,10 @@ static int try_context_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, size = count_history_pages(mapping, ra, offset, max); /* - * no history pages: + * not enough history pages: * it could be a random read */ - if (!size) + if (size <= req_size) return 0; /* @@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ static int try_context_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, size *= 2; ra->start = offset; - ra->size = get_init_ra_size(size + req_size, max); - ra->async_size = ra->size; + ra->size = min(size + req_size, max); + ra->async_size = 1; return 1; }