From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
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Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
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Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Subject: [RFC v2 2/2] block: use mm_huge_zero_folio in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages()
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:02:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250522090243.758943-3-p.raghav@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250522090243.758943-1-p.raghav@samsung.com>
Use mm_huge_zero_folio in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages(). Fallback to
ZERO_PAGE if mm_huge_zero_folio is not available.
On systems that allocates mm_huge_zero_folio, we will end up sending larger
bvecs instead of multiple small ones.
Noticed a 4% increase in performance on a commercial NVMe SSD which does
not support OP_WRITE_ZEROES. The device's MDTS was 128K. The performance
gains might be bigger if the device supports bigger MDTS.
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
---
block/blk-lib.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index 4c9f20a689f7..221389412359 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ static void __blkdev_issue_zero_pages(struct block_device *bdev,
sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask,
struct bio **biop, unsigned int flags)
{
+ struct folio *zero_folio;
+
+ zero_folio = mm_get_huge_zero_folio(NULL);
+ if (!zero_folio)
+ zero_folio = page_folio(ZERO_PAGE(0));
+
while (nr_sects) {
unsigned int nr_vecs = __blkdev_sectors_to_bio_pages(nr_sects);
struct bio *bio;
@@ -208,11 +214,12 @@ static void __blkdev_issue_zero_pages(struct block_device *bdev,
break;
do {
- unsigned int len, added;
+ unsigned int len, added = 0;
- len = min_t(sector_t,
- PAGE_SIZE, nr_sects << SECTOR_SHIFT);
- added = bio_add_page(bio, ZERO_PAGE(0), len, 0);
+ len = min_t(sector_t, folio_size(zero_folio),
+ nr_sects << SECTOR_SHIFT);
+ if (bio_add_folio(bio, zero_folio, len, 0))
+ added = len;
if (added < len)
break;
nr_sects -= added >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
--
2.47.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-22 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-22 9:02 [RFC v2 0/2] add THP_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE_ALWAYS config option Pankaj Raghav
2025-05-22 9:02 ` [RFC v2 1/2] mm: " Pankaj Raghav
2025-05-22 9:02 ` Pankaj Raghav [this message]
2025-05-22 11:31 ` [RFC v2 0/2] " Mike Rapoport
2025-05-22 12:00 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-05-22 12:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-22 12:34 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-05-22 12:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-22 13:34 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-05-22 12:01 ` David Hildenbrand
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