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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:24:19 +0100 From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk> To: Manish Sharma <manishrma@...il.com> CC: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Squashfs: Optimized uncompressed buffer loop Manish Sharma <manishrma@...il.com> wrote: > >Merged the two for loops. We might get a little gain by overlapping >wait_on_bh and the memcpy operations. > >>--- >fs/squashfs/block.c | 9 +++------ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/fs/squashfs/block.c b/fs/squashfs/block.c >index fb50652..5012f98 100644 >--- a/fs/squashfs/block.c >+++ b/fs/squashfs/block.c >@@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ int squashfs_read_data(struct super_block *sb, void **buffer, u64 index, > */ > int i, in, pg_offset = 0; > >- for (i = 0; i < b; i++) { >- wait_on_buffer(bh[i]); >- if (!buffer_uptodate(bh[i])) >- goto block_release; >- } >- > for (bytes = length; k < b; k++) { > in = min(bytes, msblk->devblksize - offset); > bytes -= in; >@@ -185,6 +179,9 @@ int squashfs_read_data(struct super_block *sb, void **buffer, u64 index, > } > avail = min_t(int, in, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - > pg_offset); >+ wait_on_buffer(bh[k]); >+ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh[k])) >+ goto block_release; Two points: 1. I understand what you're trying to do here (merging the two loops is a good thing), but this patch is in the wrong place. It should be in the outer loop rather than the inner loop. The outer loop cycles through the buffer heads, one buffer head per iteration. The inner loop copies the buffer head to the pages, and this can loop copying the same buffer head to multiple pages in the case there's not enough bytes in the page (if you want to know why, it's because we start off copying from an offset in the first buffer head). So it's not a good idea to have the wait_on_buffer() in the inner loop, as we can unnecessarily call it multiple times on the same buffer head. The wait_on_buffer() should be in the outer loop where we know it will only be called once per buffer head. I have checked the fixed patch into the "tmp" branch on my squashfs-next repository on git.kernel.org here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-next.git/commit/?h=tmp&id=5839f00feea122fb773d8520e5cfb16464fb89d5 diff --git a/fs/squashfs/block.c b/fs/squashfs/block.c index fb50652..63a5ab8d 100644 --- a/fs/squashfs/block.c +++ b/fs/squashfs/block.c @@ -169,15 +169,12 @@ int squashfs_read_data(struct super_block *sb, void **buffer, u64 index, */ int i, in, pg_offset = 0; - for (i = 0; i < b; i++) { - wait_on_buffer(bh[i]); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh[i])) - goto block_release; - } - for (bytes = length; k < b; k++) { in = min(bytes, msblk->devblksize - offset); bytes -= in; + wait_on_buffer(bh[k]); + if (!buffer_uptodate(bh[k])) + goto block_release; while (in) { if (pg_offset == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) { page++; Please send a revised v2 patch with this fix. Thanks. 2. Your emailer corrupted the patch ... This is a common occurrence with modern (wysiwyg) emailers. Please see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/email-clients.txt these days it's probably best to use git send-email. In case you're curious, this is how the emailer corrupted the patch. Your patch has $ cat -vt /tmp/1-1-Squashfs-Optimized-uncompressed-buffer-loop.patch diff --git a/fs/squashfs/block.c b/fs/squashfs/block.c [SNIP] @@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ int squashfs_read_data(struct super_block *sb, void **buffer, u64 index, ^I^I */ ^I^Iint i, in, pg_offset = 0; -^I^Ifor (i = 0; i < b; i++) { -^I^I^Iwait_on_buffer(bh[i]); -^I^I^Iif (!buffer_uptodate(bh[i])) -^I^I^I^Igoto block_release; -^I^I} - ^I^Ifor (bytes = length; k < b; k++) { ^I^I^Iin = min(bytes, msblk->devblksize - offset); ^I^I^Ibytes -= in; [SNIP] This should have been @@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ int squashfs_read_data(struct super_block *sb, void **buffer, u64 index, <space>^I^I */ <space>^I^Iint i, in, pg_offset = 0; -^I^Ifor (i = 0; i < b; i++) { -^I^I^Iwait_on_buffer(bh[i]); -^I^I^Iif (!buffer_uptodate(bh[i])) -^I^I^I^Igoto block_release; -^I^I} - <space>^I^Ifor (bytes = length; k < b; k++) { <space>^I^I^Iin = min(bytes, msblk->devblksize - offset); <space>^I^I^Ibytes -= in; where <space> should be read as " ", i.e. it has eliminated the leading space before the tabs. Phillip ps Manish, you will have received an earlier version of this email sent via gmail (where I received the patch email). Unfortunately Google has forced everyone onto its new compose, and this appears to now send html, which fsdevel and lkml sensibly rejected. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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