readahead: introduce PG_readahead
Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead. It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to invoke the read-ahead logic. For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until it runs out of cached pages! Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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