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nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages 

aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only
be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not
necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags.

The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS
readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will
clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead.

More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim,
one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io()
unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals,
assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one
and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io()
in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage().

Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Wu Fengguang 2008-12-23 15:21:30 -05:00 committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 3d44cc3e01
commit 136221fc32
1 changed files with 0 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -533,12 +533,6 @@ readpage_async_filler(void *data, struct page *page)
unsigned int len;
int error;
error = nfs_wb_page(inode, page);
if (error)
goto out_unlock;
if (PageUptodate(page))
goto out_unlock;
len = nfs_page_length(page);
if (len == 0)
return nfs_return_empty_page(page);