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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2014-10-10 02:26:58 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-10 06:25:53 +0400
commit447f05bb488bff4282088259b04f47f0f9f76760 (patch)
treec999b50a97e168730e6c9a82faa22a5cb8b72283 /fs/block_dev.c
parent4db96b71e3caea5bb39053d57683129e0682c66f (diff)
downloadlinux-447f05bb488bff4282088259b04f47f0f9f76760.tar.xz
block_dev: implement readpages() to optimize sequential read
Sequential read from a block device is expected to be equal or faster than from the file on a filesystem. But it is not correct due to the lack of effective readpages() in the address space operations for block device. This implements readpages() operation for block device by using mpage_readpages() which can create multipage BIOs instead of BIOs for each page and reduce system CPU time consumption. Install 1GB of RAM disk storage: # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 delay=0 Sequential read from file on a filesystem: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/$DEV # mount /dev/$DEV /mnt # fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/mnt/file ... read : io=524288KB, bw=2133.4MB/s, iops=546133, runt= 240msec Sequential read from a block device: # fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/dev/$DEV ... (Without this commit) read : io=524288KB, bw=1700.2MB/s, iops=435455, runt= 301msec (With this commit) read : io=524288KB, bw=2160.4MB/s, iops=553046, runt= 237msec Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 6d7274619bf9..e2f3ad0879ce 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -304,6 +304,12 @@ static int blkdev_readpage(struct file * file, struct page * page)
return block_read_full_page(page, blkdev_get_block);
}
+static int blkdev_readpages(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages)
+{
+ return mpage_readpages(mapping, pages, nr_pages, blkdev_get_block);
+}
+
static int blkdev_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
@@ -1622,6 +1628,7 @@ static int blkdev_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
.readpage = blkdev_readpage,
+ .readpages = blkdev_readpages,
.writepage = blkdev_writepage,
.write_begin = blkdev_write_begin,
.write_end = blkdev_write_end,