block: row-iosched idling triggered by readahead pages

In the current implementation idling is triggered only by request
insertion frequency. This heuristic is not very accurate and may hit
random requests that shouldn't trigger idling. This patch uses the
PG_readahead flag in struct page's flags, which indicates that the page
is part of a readahead window, to start idling upon dispatch of a request
associated with a readahead page.

The above readehead flag is used together with the existing
insertion-frequency trigger. The frequency timer will catch read requests
which are not part of a readahead window, but are still part of a
sequential stream (and therefore dispatched in small time intervals).

Change-Id: Icb7145199c007408de3f267645ccb842e051fd00
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>
mm: pass readahead info down to the i/o scheduler

Some i/o schedulers (i.e. row-iosched, cfq-iosched) deploy an idling
algorithm in order to be better synced with the readahead algorithm.
Idling is a prediction algorithm for incoming read requests.

In this patch we mark pages which are part of a readahead window, by
setting a newly introduced flag. With this flag, the i/o scheduler can
identify a request which is associated with a readahead page. This
enables the i/o scheduler's idling mechanism to be en-sync with the
readahead mechanism and, in turn, can increase read throughput.

Change-Id: I0654f23315b6d19d71bcc9cc029c6b281a44b196
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>
mm: change initial readahead window size calculation

Change the logic which determines the initial readahead window size
such that for small requests (one page) the initial window size
will be x4 the size of the original request, regardless of the
VM_MAX_READAHEAD value. This prevents a rapid ramp-up
that could be caused due to increasing VM_MAX_READAHEAD.

Change-Id: I93d59c515d7e6c6d62348790980ff7bd4f434997
Signed-off-by: Lee Susman <lsusman@codeaurora.org>
CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug

The CPU hotplug callback related to writeback calls writeback_set_ratelimit()
during every state change in the hotplug sequence. This is unnecessary
since num_online_cpus() changes only once during the entire hotplug operation.

So invoke the function only once per hotplug, thereby avoiding the
unnecessary repetition of those costly calculations.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: remove nr_pages_dirtied arg from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()

There is no reason to pass the nr_pages_dirtied argument, because
nr_pages_dirtied value from the caller is unused in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr().

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <vtrivedi018@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>