[LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/readahead02: use bdi max readahead limit

[Jan Stancek]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyril Hrubis" <chrubis@suse.cz>
> To: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it, klamm@yandex-team.ru
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 March, 2016 3:52:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/readahead02: use bdi max readahead limit
> 
> Hi!
> > +static long get_device_readahead(const char *fname)
> > +{
> > +	FILE *f;
> > +	struct stat st;
> > +	unsigned long ra_kb = 0;
> > +	char buf[256];
> > +
> > +	if (stat(fname, &st) == -1)
> > +		return -1;
> > +	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/sys/dev/block/%d:%d/queue/read_ahead_kb",
> > +		 major(st.st_dev), minor(st.st_dev));
> > +	f = fopen(buf, "r");
> > +	if (!f)
> > +		return -1;
> > +
> > +	if (fscanf(f, "%lu", &ra_kb) != 1) {
> > +		fclose(f);
> > +		return -1;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	fclose(f);
> 
> Any reason why we don't do SAFE_FILE_SCANF() instead of fopen(),
> fscanf(), fclose() here? We call tst_brkm(TBROK, ...) when this call
> returs -1 in the read_testfile() anyway...

True. I was planning to ignore failure, since this sys file doesn't exist on
older kernels, but with added kvercmp this is no longer the case.
I'll replace it with SAFE_FILE_SCANF.

Regards,
Jan

> 
> > +	return ra_kb * 1024;
> > +}
> > +
> >  /* read_testfile - mmap testfile and read every page.
> >   * This functions measures how many I/O and time it takes to fully
> >   * read contents of test file.
> > @@ -206,16 +230,26 @@ static void read_testfile(int do_readahead, const
> > char *fname, size_t fsize,
> >  	unsigned long time_start_usec, time_end_usec;
> >  	off_t offset;
> >  	struct timeval now;
> > +	long readahead_size;
> > +
> > +	if ((tst_kvercmp(4, 4, 0)) >= 0) {
> > +		readahead_size = get_device_readahead(fname);
> > +		if (readahead_size == -1)
> > +			tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup, "get_device_readahead");
> > +	} else {
> > +		/* default to 2M, which should work on kernels prior to 4.4 */
> > +		readahead_size = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
> > +	}
> > +	tst_resm(TINFO, "max readahead size is: %ld", readahead_size);
> >  
> >  	fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY);
> >  	if (fd < 0)
> >  		tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, cleanup, "Failed to open %s", fname);
> >  
> >  	if (do_readahead) {
> > -		/* read ahead in chunks, 2MB is maximum since 3.15-rc1 */
> > -		for (i = 0; i < fsize; i += 2*1024*1024) {
> > +		for (i = 0; i < fsize; i += readahead_size) {
> >  			TEST(ltp_syscall(__NR_readahead, fd,
> > -				(off64_t) i, 2*1024*1024));
> > +				(off64_t) i, readahead_size));
> >  			if (TEST_RETURN != 0)
> >  				break;
> >  		}
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>