readahead: make mmap_miss an unsigned int
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:31:19 +0000 (15:31 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:47:28 +0000 (19:47 -0700)
commit1ebf26a9b338534def47f307c6c8694b6dfc0a79
tree26829a8cc727388c0da8eea6de38d7ba0eda2a47
parentbb1f17b0372de93758653ca3454bc0df18dc2e5c
readahead: make mmap_miss an unsigned int

This makes the performance impact of possible mmap_miss wrap around to be
temporary and tolerable: i.e.  MMAP_LOTSAMISS=100 extra readarounds.

Otherwise if ever mmap_miss wraps around to negative, it takes INT_MAX
cache misses to bring it back to normal state.  During the time mmap
readaround will be _enabled_ for whatever wild random workload.  That's
almost permanent performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/fs.h