On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:47:53PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:10:36PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > @@ -2275,83 +2287,93 @@ static ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, > > struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t written) > > { > > struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp; > > + struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra; > > struct address_space *mapping = filp->f_mapping; > > struct inode *inode = mapping->host; > > - struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra; > > size_t orig_count = iov_iter_count(iter); > > - pgoff_t last_index; > > - int error = 0; > > + struct page *pages[64]; > > That's 512 bytes which seems like a lot of stack space. Would 16 be > enough to see a significant fraction of the benefit? Ah right, we do call into fs code for readahead from here. I'll switch it to kmalloc the page array if it's more than 16.