linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH] cifs: Improve use of filemap_get_folios

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:13:06 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@....nz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] cifs: Improve use of filemap_get_folios_tag()

[This additional to the "cifs: Fix cifs_writepages_region()" patch that I
posted]

The inefficiency derived from filemap_get_folios_tag() get a batch of
contiguous folios in Vishal's change to afs that got copied into cifs can
be reduced by skipping over those folios that have been passed by the start
position rather than going through the process of locking, checking and
trying to write them.

A similar change would need to be made in afs, in addition to fixing the bugs
there.

There's also a fix in cifs_write_back_from_locked_folio() where it doesn't
return the amount of data dispatched to the server as ->async_writev() just
returns 0 on success.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index ebfcaae8c437..bae1a9709e32 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -2839,6 +2839,7 @@ static ssize_t cifs_write_back_from_locked_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
 	free_xid(xid);
 	if (rc == 0) {
 		wbc->nr_to_write = count;
+		rc = len;
 	} else if (is_retryable_error(rc)) {
 		cifs_pages_write_redirty(inode, start, len);
 	} else {
@@ -2873,6 +2874,13 @@ static int cifs_writepages_region(struct address_space *mapping,
 		for (int i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
 			ssize_t ret;
 			struct folio *folio = fbatch.folios[i];
+			unsigned long long fstart;
+
+			fstart = folio_pos(folio); /* May go backwards with THPs */
+			if (fstart < start &&
+			    folio_size(folio) <= start - fstart)
+				continue;
+			start = fstart;
 
 redo_folio:
 			start = folio_pos(folio); /* May regress with THPs */