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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page when waiting for IO to complete during a read

From Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page when waiting for IO to complete during a read
Date 2016-01-25 15:10 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> 

Thanks!

> > ---
> >  mm/filemap.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> > index aa38593d0cd5..235ee2b0b5da 100644
> > --- a/mm/filemap.c
> > +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> > @@ -1649,6 +1649,15 @@ static ssize_t do_generic_file_read(struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos,
> >  					index, last_index - index);
> >  		}
> >  		if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> > +			/*
> > +			 * See comment in do_read_cache_page on why
> > +			 * wait_on_page_locked is used to avoid unnecessarily
> > +			 * serialisations and why it's safe.
> > +			 */
> > +			wait_on_page_locked(page);
> > +			if (PageUptodate(page))
> > +				goto page_ok;
> > +
> 
> We want a wait_on_page_locked_killable() here to match the
> lock_page_killable() later in do_generic_file_read()?
> 

Yes, I'll fix it in v2.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH 0/2] Avoid unnecessary page locks in the generic read path Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-01-25 11:10 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page when waiting for IO to complete during a read Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-01-25 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page  when waiting for IO to complete during a read Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-01-25 12:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page  when waiting for IO to complete during a read Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-01-25 15:10 +0100

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