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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2021-02-24 12:01:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-24 13:38:27 -0800
commit0c7c575df56b957390206deb018c41acbb412159 (patch)
tree364372b8c895ce3ff142bf406d4bfb0fde60b582 /mm/filemap.c
parent3a6bae48390d25a9937978a6c09ccc400b6efcbd (diff)
downloadlinux-0c7c575df56b957390206deb018c41acbb412159.tar.bz2
mm/filemap: remove dynamically allocated array from filemap_read
Increasing the batch size runs into diminishing returns. It's probably better to make, eg, three calls to filemap_get_pages() than it is to call into kmalloc(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122160140.223228-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index fbfea449f417..f621a7de5833 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2431,8 +2431,8 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra;
struct address_space *mapping = filp->f_mapping;
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
- struct page *pages_onstack[PAGEVEC_SIZE], **pages = NULL;
- unsigned int nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, 512,
+ struct page *pages[PAGEVEC_SIZE];
+ unsigned int nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, PAGEVEC_SIZE,
((iocb->ki_pos + iter->count + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT) -
(iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT));
int i, pg_nr, error = 0;
@@ -2446,14 +2446,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
iov_iter_truncate(iter, inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes);
- if (nr_pages > ARRAY_SIZE(pages_onstack))
- pages = kmalloc_array(nr_pages, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
-
- if (!pages) {
- pages = pages_onstack;
- nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, nr_pages, ARRAY_SIZE(pages_onstack));
- }
-
do {
cond_resched();
@@ -2538,9 +2530,6 @@ put_pages:
file_accessed(filp);
- if (pages != pages_onstack)
- kfree(pages);
-
return written ? written : error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_file_buffered_read);