linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring & optimization

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Message-Id: <20200610001036.3904844-1-kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  9 Jun 2020 20:10:34 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring & optimization

This is a small patch series that's been in the bcachefs tree for awhile.

In the buffered read path, we look up a page in the page cache, then copy from
that page in a loop - i.e. mixing the data copies in between looking up each
individual page. When we're doing large reads from the page cache, this is some
pretty major overhead.

This just reworks generic_file_buffered_read() to use find_get_pages_contig()
and work on an array of pages. It's a pretty significant performance
improvement for large buffered reads, and doesn't regress performance on single
page reads.

As a bonus, generic_file_buffered_read() gets broken up into multiple functions
that are _somewhat_ easier to follow.

Kent Overstreet (2):
  fs: Break generic_file_buffered_read up into multiple functions
  fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig

 mm/filemap.c | 486 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 273 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-)

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