On 2025/12/2 03:16, Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote:
This patch fixes the broken readahead flow for POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED, where
the problem is, in force_page_cache_ra(nr_to_read), nr_to_read is cut by
the below code.

      max_pages = max_t(unsigned long, bdi->io_pages, ra->ra_pages);
      nr_to_read = min_t(unsigned long, nr_to_read, max_pages);

IOWs, we are not able to read ahead larger than the above max_pages which
is most likely the range of 2MB and 16MB. Note, it doesn't make sense
to set ra->ra_pages to the entire file size. Instead, let's fix this logic.

Before:
f2fs_fadvise: dev = (252,16), ino = 14, i_size = 4294967296 offset:0, 
len:4294967296, advise:3
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=0 nr_to_read=512 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=512 nr_to_read=512 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=1024 nr_to_read=512 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=1536 nr_to_read=512 
lookahead_size=0

After:
f2fs_fadvise: dev = (252,16), ino = 14, i_size = 4294967296 offset:0, 
len:4294967296, advise:3
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=0 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=2048 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=4096 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=6144 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=8192 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=10240 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=12288 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=14336 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=16384 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=18432 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=20480 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=22528 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=24576 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
...
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=1042432 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=1044480 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0
page_cache_ra_unbounded: dev=252:16 ino=e index=1046528 nr_to_read=2048 
lookahead_size=0

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>

Thanks,


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