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From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:08:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610010800.GA4070152@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200610004753.GE19604@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:47:53PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:10:36PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > @@ -2275,83 +2287,93 @@ static ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
> >  		struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t written)
> >  {
> >  	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
> > +	struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra;
> >  	struct address_space *mapping = filp->f_mapping;
> >  	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> > -	struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra;
> >  	size_t orig_count = iov_iter_count(iter);
> > -	pgoff_t last_index;
> > -	int error = 0;
> > +	struct page *pages[64];
> 
> That's 512 bytes which seems like a lot of stack space.  Would 16 be
> enough to see a significant fraction of the benefit?

Ah right, we do call into fs code for readahead from here. I'll switch it to
kmalloc the page array if it's more than 16.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-10  0:10 [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring & optimization Kent Overstreet
2020-06-10  0:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: Break generic_file_buffered_read up into multiple functions Kent Overstreet
2020-06-10  0:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig Kent Overstreet
2020-06-10  0:47   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-10  1:08     ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2020-06-10  1:38   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-10  1:46     ` Kent Overstreet
2020-06-20 14:36   ` [fs] 420772c473: vm-scalability.throughput 41.7% improvement kernel test robot
2020-06-10  1:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] fs: Break generic_file_buffered_read up into multiple functions Kent Overstreet
2020-06-10  1:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig Kent Overstreet
2020-06-18  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-19  3:20     ` [PATCH v3 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring & optimization Kent Overstreet
2020-06-19 12:59       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-19 18:44         ` Kent Overstreet
2020-06-19  3:20     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] fs: Break generic_file_buffered_read up into multiple functions Kent Overstreet
2020-06-19  3:20     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig Kent Overstreet
2020-06-30  0:12 ` Fixup patch for [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring & optimization Kent Overstreet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-17 20:10 [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read() refactoring, perf improvements Kent Overstreet
2020-10-17 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig Kent Overstreet
2020-10-20 14:47   ` Jens Axboe
2018-08-15 23:26 [PATCH 0/2] generic_file_buffered_read improvements Kent Overstreet
2018-08-15 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig Kent Overstreet
2018-08-16 14:56   ` kbuild test robot

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