From eb2be189317d031895b5ca534fbf735eb546158b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:24:57 -0700 Subject: mm: buffered write cleanup Quite a bit of code is used in maintaining these "cached pages" that are probably pretty unlikely to get used. It would require a narrow race where the page is inserted concurrently while this process is allocating a page in order to create the spare page. Then a multi-page write into an uncached part of the file, to make use of it. Next, the buffered write path (and others) uses its own LRU pagevec when it should be just using the per-CPU LRU pagevec (which will cut down on both data and code size cacheline footprint). Also, these private LRU pagevecs are emptied after just a very short time, in contrast with the per-CPU pagevecs that are persistent. Net result: 7.3 times fewer lru_lock acquisitions required to add the pages to pagecache for a bulk write (in 4K chunks). [this gets rid of some cond_resched() calls in readahead.c and mpage.c due to clashes in -mm. What put them there, and why? ] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/mpage.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/mpage.c') diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c index b1c3e589050..d54f8f89722 100644 --- a/fs/mpage.c +++ b/fs/mpage.c @@ -379,31 +379,25 @@ mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, struct bio *bio = NULL; unsigned page_idx; sector_t last_block_in_bio = 0; - struct pagevec lru_pvec; struct buffer_head map_bh; unsigned long first_logical_block = 0; clear_buffer_mapped(&map_bh); - pagevec_init(&lru_pvec, 0); for (page_idx = 0; page_idx < nr_pages; page_idx++) { struct page *page = list_entry(pages->prev, struct page, lru); prefetchw(&page->flags); list_del(&page->lru); - if (!add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, + if (!add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) { bio = do_mpage_readpage(bio, page, nr_pages - page_idx, &last_block_in_bio, &map_bh, &first_logical_block, get_block); - if (!pagevec_add(&lru_pvec, page)) - __pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); - } else { - page_cache_release(page); } + page_cache_release(page); } - pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec); BUG_ON(!list_empty(pages)); if (bio) mpage_bio_submit(READ, bio); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258