block: never reduce ra_pages in blk_apply_bdi_limits

When the user increased the read-ahead size through sysfs this value
currently get lost if the device is reprobe, including on a resume
from suspend.

As there is no hardware limitation for the read-ahead size there is
no real need to reset it or track a separate hardware limitation
like for max_sectors.

This restores the pre-atomic queue limit behavior in the sd driver as
sd did not use blk_queue_io_opt and thus never updated the read ahead
size to the value based of the optimal I/O, but changes behavior for
all other drivers.  As the new behavior seems useful and sd is the
driver for which the readahead size tweaks are most useful that seems
like a worthwhile trade off.

Fixes: 804e498 ("sd: convert to the atomic queue limits API")
Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

Author: Christoph Hellwig

block/blk-settings.c

@@ -61,8 +61,14 @@ void blk_apply_bdi_limits(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	/*
 	 * For read-ahead of large files to be effective, we need to read ahead
 	 * at least twice the optimal I/O size.
+	 *
+	 * There is no hardware limitation for the read-ahead size and the user
+	 * might have increased the read-ahead size through sysfs, so don't ever
+	 * decrease it.
 	 */
-	bdi->ra_pages = max(lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, VM_READAHEAD_PAGES);
+	bdi->ra_pages = max3(bdi->ra_pages,
+				lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE,
+				VM_READAHEAD_PAGES);
 	bdi->io_pages = lim->max_sectors >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT;
 }