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David Howells ee4cdf7ba8
netfs: Speed up buffered reading
Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-09-12 12:20:41 +02:00
arch ARM fix for v6.11 2024-09-04 09:17:33 -07:00
block block: fix detection of unsupported WRITE SAME in blkdev_issue_write_zeroes 2024-08-28 08:49:25 -06:00
certs
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Documentation mm/memcontrol: respect zswap.writeback setting from parent cg too 2024-09-01 17:59:02 -07:00
drivers ata fixes for 6.11-rc7 2024-09-01 19:59:59 -07:00
fs netfs: Speed up buffered reading 2024-09-12 12:20:41 +02:00
include netfs: Speed up buffered reading 2024-09-12 12:20:41 +02:00
init Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: return correct iovec count from classic buffer peek 2024-08-30 10:45:54 -06:00
ipc
kernel 17 hotfixes, 15 of which are cc:stable. 2024-09-04 08:37:33 -07:00
lib mm: Define struct folio_queue and ITER_FOLIOQ to handle a sequence of folios 2024-09-12 12:20:21 +02:00
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mm vfs-6.11-rc7.fixes 2024-09-04 09:33:57 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth, wireless and netfilter. 2024-08-30 06:14:39 +12:00
rust Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
samples
scripts scripts: fix gfp-translate after ___GFP_*_BITS conversion to an enum 2024-09-01 17:59:01 -07:00
security Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging 2024-09-01 09:18:48 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 6.11-rc6 2024-08-28 06:24:22 +12:00
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