From 08f70c0a930c00d25015fed7e3b7c5370d60be24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:50:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cifs: Fix read-performance regression by dropping readahead expansion cifs_expand_read() is causing a performance regression of around 30% by causing extra pagecache to be allocated for an inode in the readahead path before we begin actually dispatching RPC requests, thereby delaying the actual I/O. The expansion is sized according to the rsize parameter, which seems to be 4MiB on my test system; this is a big step up from the first requests made by the fio test program. Simple repro (look at read bandwidth number): fio --name=writetest --filename=/xfstest.test/foo --time_based --runtime=60 --size=16M --numjobs=1 --rw=read Fix this by removing cifs_expand_readahead(). Readahead expansion is mostly useful for when we're using the local cache if the local cache has a block size greater than PAGE_SIZE, so we can dispense with it when not caching. Fixes: 69c3c023af25 ("cifs: Implement netfslib hooks") Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) cc: Jeff Layton cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/smb/client/file.c | 30 ------------------------------ 1 file changed, 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/smb/client/file.c b/fs/smb/client/file.c index f1f2573bb18d..1374635e89fa 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/file.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/file.c @@ -245,35 +245,6 @@ static int cifs_init_request(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, struct file *file) return 0; } -/* - * Expand the size of a readahead to the size of the rsize, if at least as - * large as a page, allowing for the possibility that rsize is not pow-2 - * aligned. - */ -static void cifs_expand_readahead(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) -{ - unsigned int rsize = rreq->rsize; - loff_t misalignment, i_size = i_size_read(rreq->inode); - - if (rsize < PAGE_SIZE) - return; - - if (rsize < INT_MAX) - rsize = roundup_pow_of_two(rsize); - else - rsize = ((unsigned int)INT_MAX + 1) / 2; - - misalignment = rreq->start & (rsize - 1); - if (misalignment) { - rreq->start -= misalignment; - rreq->len += misalignment; - } - - rreq->len = round_up(rreq->len, rsize); - if (rreq->start < i_size && rreq->len > i_size - rreq->start) - rreq->len = i_size - rreq->start; -} - /* * Completion of a request operation. */ @@ -329,7 +300,6 @@ const struct netfs_request_ops cifs_req_ops = { .init_request = cifs_init_request, .free_request = cifs_free_request, .free_subrequest = cifs_free_subrequest, - .expand_readahead = cifs_expand_readahead, .clamp_length = cifs_clamp_length, .issue_read = cifs_req_issue_read, .done = cifs_rreq_done,