tree 095bee418beb8dfdda139c322af4cff625f549d4
parent 723ef24b9b379e59facc65de8c065c8b89d479cd
author Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> 1608001496 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1608063218 -0800

mm/filemap.c: generic_file_buffered_read() now uses find_get_pages_contig

Convert generic_file_buffered_read() to get pages to read from in batches,
and then copy data to userspace from many pages at once - in particular,
we now don't touch any cachelines that might be contended while we're in
the loop to copy data to userspace.

This is is a performance improvement on workloads that do buffered reads
with large blocksizes, and a very large performance improvement if that
file is also being accessed concurrently by different threads.

On smaller reads (512 bytes), there's a very small performance improvement
(1%, within the margin of error).

akpm: kernel test robot found a 32% speedup on one test:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030081456.GY31092@shao2-debian

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201025212949.602194-3-kent.overstreet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>