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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mm: don't read i_size of inode unless we need it
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:00:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8118299-6576-fae6-e02c-8ae1e25c5d68@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXqxXXDYtKetgZY0@infradead.org>

On 10/28/21 8:19 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Btw, given that you're micro-optimizing in this area:
> 
> block devices still use ->direct_IO in the I/O path.  It might make
> sense to switch to the model of the file systems that use iomap where
> we avoid that indirect call and can optimize the code for the direct
> I/O fast path.  With that you woudn't even end up using this i_size_read
> at all

It's not a bad idea, we do kind of jump through some hoops here by
calling generic_file_iter_read(), we should just check for dio upfront
and handle that, falling back to filemap_read() if needed.

-- 
Jens Axboe



      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26 18:15 Jens Axboe
2021-10-26 19:11 ` Chris Mason
2021-10-27 15:50   ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-28 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-28 15:00   ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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