linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/12] readahead: Put pages in cache earlier

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Date:   Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:44:49 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] readahead: Put pages in cache earlier

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 05:35:44PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> @@ -192,8 +194,18 @@ unsigned long __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
>  		page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask);
>  		if (!page)
>  			break;
> -		page->index = page_offset;
> -		list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
> +		if (use_list) {
> +			page->index = page_offset;
> +			list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
> +		} else if (!add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, page_offset,
> +					gfp_mask)) {
> +			if (nr_pages)
> +				read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool,
> +						page_offset - nr_pages,
> +						nr_pages);
> +			nr_pages = 0;

This is missing a call to put_page().

> +			continue;
> +		}
>  		if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
>  			SetPageReadahead(page);
>  		nr_pages++;