Re: [PATCH] f2fs: assign REQ_RAHEAD to bio for ->readpages

From: Chao Yu
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 03:39:22 EST


On 2018/6/22 3:32, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> As Jens reported, we'd better assign REQ_RAHEAD to bio by the fact that
> ->readpages is called only from read-ahead.
>
> In Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt,
>
> readpages: called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space
> object. This is essentially just a vector version of
> readpage. Instead of just one page, several pages are
> requested.
> readpages is only used for read-ahead, so read errors are
> ignored. If anything goes wrong, feel free to give up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,