[RFC PATCH 03/09] Change rdata alloc to support direct pages

From: Long Li
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 19:29:17 EST


From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There is no need to allocate pages when using pages directly from user buffer

Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/file.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index a6ec896..ed25e04 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -2880,11 +2880,15 @@ cifs_strict_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
}

static struct cifs_readdata *
-cifs_readdata_alloc(unsigned int nr_pages, work_func_t complete)
+cifs_readdata_alloc(unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **direct_pages, work_func_t complete)
{
struct cifs_readdata *rdata;

- rdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*rdata) + (sizeof(struct page *) * nr_pages),
+ if (direct_pages) {
+ rdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*rdata), GFP_KERNEL);
+ rdata->direct_pages = direct_pages;
+ } else
+ rdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*rdata) + (sizeof(struct page *) * nr_pages),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (rdata != NULL) {
kref_init(&rdata->refcount);
@@ -3095,14 +3099,13 @@ cifs_send_async_read(loff_t offset, size_t len, struct cifsFileInfo *open_file,
npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(cur_len, PAGE_SIZE);

/* allocate a readdata struct */
- rdata = cifs_readdata_alloc(npages,
+ rdata = cifs_readdata_alloc(npages, NULL,
cifs_uncached_readv_complete);
if (!rdata) {
add_credits_and_wake_if(server, credits, 0);
rc = -ENOMEM;
break;
}
-
rc = cifs_read_allocate_pages(rdata, npages);
if (rc)
goto error;
@@ -3770,7 +3773,7 @@ static int cifs_readpages(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
break;
}

- rdata = cifs_readdata_alloc(nr_pages, cifs_readv_complete);
+ rdata = cifs_readdata_alloc(nr_pages, NULL, cifs_readv_complete);
if (!rdata) {
/* best to give up if we're out of mem */
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tpage, &tmplist, lru) {
--
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