From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Expose the blockdev's VM readahead in /sys/block/hda/queue/read_ahead_kbytes

This duplicates `blockdev --setra', but we're trying to get away from
ioctls.

It would be nice to have a readahead-setting mechanism which also allows,
say, NFS to be tuned.  But there is no common exposure point for
backing_dev_infos.  One option might be per-superblock:

	mount -o remount,read_ahead_kbytes=64

but the generic remount code also has no visibility of the backing_dev, so it
would need a new super_block operation.  One which doesn't accidentally modify
default_backing_dev_info.



---

 25-akpm/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~expose-backing-dev-max-read-ahead drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
--- 25/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~expose-backing-dev-max-read-ahead	2004-05-12 21:02:36.114055736 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	2004-05-12 21:02:36.120054824 -0700
@@ -2998,14 +2998,41 @@ queue_requests_store(struct request_queu
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static ssize_t queue_ra_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
+{
+	int ra_kb = q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10);
+
+	return queue_var_show(ra_kb, (page));
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+queue_ra_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count)
+{
+	unsigned long ra_kb;
+	ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&ra_kb, page, count);
+
+	if (ra_kb > (q->max_sectors >> 1))
+		ra_kb = (q->max_sectors >> 1);
+
+	q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = ra_kb >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_requests_entry = {
 	.attr = {.name = "nr_requests", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
 	.show = queue_requests_show,
 	.store = queue_requests_store,
 };
 
+static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_ra_entry = {
+	.attr = {.name = "read_ahead_kb", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
+	.show = queue_ra_show,
+	.store = queue_ra_store,
+};
+
 static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
 	&queue_requests_entry.attr,
+	&queue_ra_entry.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 

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