If ->readpages doesn't process all the pages, then it is best to act as
though they weren't requested so that a subsequent readahead can try
again.
So:
  - remove any 'ahead' pages from the page cache so they can be loaded
    with ->readahead() rather then multiple ->read()s
  - update the file_ra_state to reflect the reads that were actually
    submitted.

This allows ->readpages() to abort early due e.g.  to congestion, which
will then allow us to remove the inode_read_congested() test from
page_Cache_async_ra().

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
---
 mm/readahead.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 73b2bc5302e0..8a97bd408cf6 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -104,7 +104,13 @@
  * for necessary resources (e.g.  memory or indexing information) to
  * become available.  Pages in the final ``async_size`` may be
  * considered less urgent and failure to read them is more acceptable.
- * They will eventually be read individually using ->readpage().
+ * In this case it is best to use delete_from_page_cache() to remove the
+ * pages from the page cache as is automatically done for pages that
+ * were not fetched with readahead_page().  This will allow a
+ * subsequent synchronous read ahead request to try them again.  If they
+ * are left in the page cache, then they will be read individually using
+ * ->readpage().
+ *
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -226,8 +232,17 @@ static void read_pages(struct readahead_control *rac, 
struct list_head *pages,
 
        if (aops->readahead) {
                aops->readahead(rac);
-               /* Clean up the remaining pages */
+               /*
+                * Clean up the remaining pages.  The sizes in ->ra
+                * maybe be used to size next read-ahead, so make sure
+                * they accurately reflect what happened.
+                */
                while ((page = readahead_page(rac))) {
+                       rac->ra->size -= 1;
+                       if (rac->ra->async_size > 0) {
+                               rac->ra->async_size -= 1;
+                               delete_from_page_cache(page);
+                       }
                        unlock_page(page);
                        put_page(page);
                }




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