c8d317aa18
The async buffered reads feature is not working when readahead is
turned off. There are two things to concern:
- when doing retry in io_read, not only the IOCB_WAITQ flag but also
the IOCB_NOWAIT flag is still set, which makes it goes to would_block
phase in generic_file_buffered_read() and then return -EAGAIN. After
that, the io-wq thread work is queued, and later doing the async
reads in the old way.
- even if we remove IOCB_NOWAIT when doing retry, the feature is still
not running properly, since in generic_file_buffered_read() it goes to
lock_page_killable() after calling mapping->a_ops->readpage() to do
IO, and thus causing process to sleep.
Fixes: 1a0a7853b901 ("mm: support async buffered reads in generic_file_buffered_read()")
Fixes: 3b2a4439e0ae ("io_uring: get rid of kiocb_wait_page_queue_init()")
Signed-off-by: Hao Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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