do_mpage_readpage(): don't submit lots of small bios on boundary

While tracing I/O patterns with blktrace (a great tool) a few weeks ago I
identified a minor issue in fs/mpage.c

As the comment above mpage_readpages() says, a fs's get_block function
will set BH_Boundary when it maps a block just before a block for which
extra I/O is required.

Since get_block() can map a range of pages, for all these pages the
BH_Boundary flag will be set.  But we only need to push what I/O we have
accumulated at the last block of this range.

This makes do_mpage_readpage() send out the largest possible bio instead
of a bunch of page-sized ones in the BH_Boundary case.

Signed-off-by: Miquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@xs4all.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 552b80b..46e977e 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -308,7 +308,10 @@ alloc_new:
                goto alloc_new;
        }
 
-       if (buffer_boundary(map_bh) || (first_hole != blocks_per_page))
+       relative_block = block_in_file - *first_logical_block;
+       nblocks = map_bh->b_size >> blkbits;
+       if ((buffer_boundary(map_bh) && relative_block == nblocks) ||
+           (first_hole != blocks_per_page))
                bio = mpage_bio_submit(READ, bio);
        else
                *last_block_in_bio = blocks[blocks_per_page - 1];