[PATCH v1 2/6] fs: use on-stack-bio if backing device has BDI_CAP_SYNC capability

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 02:51:32 EST


There is no need to use dynamic bio allocation for BDI_CAP_SYNC
devices. They can with on-stack-bio without concern about waiting
bio allocation from mempool under heavy memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/mpage.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 2e4c41ccb5c9..eaeaef27d693 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
#include <linux/cleancache.h>
#include "internal.h"

+static void on_stack_page_end_io(struct bio *bio)
+{
+ struct page *page = bio->bi_io_vec->bv_page;
+
+ page_endio(page, op_is_write(bio_op(bio)),
+ blk_status_to_errno(bio->bi_status));
+}
+
/*
* I/O completion handler for multipage BIOs.
*
@@ -278,6 +286,22 @@ do_mpage_readpage(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned nr_pages,
alloc_new:
if (bio == NULL) {
if (first_hole == blocks_per_page) {
+ if (bdi_cap_synchronous_io(inode_to_bdi(inode))) {
+ /* on-stack-bio */
+ struct bio sbio;
+ struct bio_vec bvec;
+
+ bio_init(&sbio, &bvec, 1);
+ sbio.bi_bdev = bdev;
+ sbio.bi_iter.bi_sector =
+ blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9);
+ sbio.bi_end_io = on_stack_page_end_io;
+ bio_add_page(&sbio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+ bio_set_op_attrs(&sbio, REQ_OP_READ, 0);
+ submit_bio(&sbio);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (!bdev_read_page(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
page))
goto out;
@@ -604,6 +628,25 @@ static int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
alloc_new:
if (bio == NULL) {
if (first_unmapped == blocks_per_page) {
+ if (bdi_cap_synchronous_io(inode_to_bdi(inode))) {
+ /* on-stack-bio */
+ struct bio sbio;
+ struct bio_vec bvec;
+
+ bio_init(&sbio, &bvec, 1);
+ sbio.bi_bdev = bdev;
+ sbio.bi_iter.bi_sector =
+ blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9);
+ sbio.bi_end_io = on_stack_page_end_io;
+ bio_add_page(&sbio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+ bio_set_op_attrs(&sbio, REQ_OP_WRITE, op_flags);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(PageWriteback(page));
+ set_page_writeback(page);
+ unlock_page(page);
+ submit_bio(&sbio);
+ clean_buffers(page, first_unmapped);
+ }
+
if (!bdev_write_page(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
page, wbc)) {
clean_buffers(page, first_unmapped);
--
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