readahead: make context readahead more conservative

This helps performance on moderately dense random reads on SSD.

Transaction-Per-Second numbers provided by Taobao:

		QPS	case
		-------------------------------------------------------
		7536	disable context readahead totally
w/ patch:	7129	slower size rampup and start RA on the 3rd read
		6717	slower size rampup
w/o patch:	5581	unmodified context readahead

Before, readahead will be started whenever reading page N+1 when it happen
to read N recently.  After patch, we'll only start readahead when *three*
random reads happen to access pages N, N+1, N+2.  The probability of this
happening is extremely low for pure random reads, unless they are very
dense, which actually deserves some readahead.

Also start with a smaller readahead window.  The impact to interleaved
sequential reads should be small, because for a long run stream, the the
small readahead window rampup phase is negletable.

The context readahead actually benefits clustered random reads on HDD
whose seek cost is pretty high.  However as SSD is increasingly used for
random read workloads it's better for the context readahead to concentrate
on interleaved sequential reads.

Another SSD rand read test from Miao

        # file size:        2GB
        # read IO amount: 625MB
        sysbench --test=fileio          \
                --max-requests=10000    \
                --num-threads=1         \
                --file-num=1            \
                --file-block-size=64K   \
                --file-test-mode=rndrd  \
                --file-fsync-freq=0     \
                --file-fsync-end=off    run

shows the performance of btrfs grows up from 69MB/s to 121MB/s, ext4 from
104MB/s to 121MB/s.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Tested-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AIO: Don't plug the I/O queue in do_io_submit() Asynchronous I/O latency to a solid-state disk greatly increased between the 2.6.32 and 3.0 kernels. By removing the plug from do_io_submit(), we observed a 34% improvement in the I/O latency.

Unfortunately, at this level, we don't know if the request is to
a rotating disk or not.

Change-Id: I7101df956473ed9fd5dcff18e473dd93b688a5c1
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
defconfig: regenerate

Change-Id: I5f65dc0e909807ad4c8148c7cd499ae010f4c462
fs/sync: enable dyn fsync by default, code clean up and optimisations

Change-Id: Iccab32a18cac78b0206898cef2512fec4ebe1a69
sched: Set MC (multi-core) sched domain's busy_factor attribute to 1

busy_factor attribute of a scheduler domain causes busy CPUs (CPUs
that are not idle) to load balance less frequently in that domain,
which could impact performance by increasing scheduling latency for
tasks.

As an example, consider MC scheduler domain's attribute values of
max_interval = 4ms and busy_factor = 64. Further consider
max_load_balance_interval = 100 (HZ/10). In this case, a non-idle CPU
could put off load balance check in MC domain by 100ms. This
effectively means that a CPU running a single task in its queue could
fail to notice increased load on another CPU (that is in same MC
domain) for upto 100ms, before picking up load from the overloaded
CPU. Needless to say, this leads to increased scheduling latency for
tasks, affecting performance adversely.

By setting MC domain's busy_factor value to 1, we limit maximum
interval that busy CPU can put off load balance checks to 4ms
(effectively 10ms, given HZ value of 100).

Change-Id: Id45869d06f5556ea8eec602b65c2ffd2143fe060
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@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>