From 447f05bb488bff4282088259b04f47f0f9f76760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:26:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/block_dev.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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, -- 2.20.1