On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 08:24:56PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > I thought of that but I saw that the loop that assigns the arr only > pegs a bh if we don't "continue" for certain conditions, which made me > believe that we only wanted to keep on the array as non-null items which > meet the initial loop's criteria. If that is not accurate then yes, > the simplication is nice! Uh, right. A little bit more carefully this time ... how does this look? diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 5e67e21b350a..dff671079b02 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2282,7 +2282,7 @@ int block_read_full_folio(struct folio *folio, get_block_t *get_block) { struct inode *inode = folio->mapping->host; sector_t iblock, lblock; - struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *arr[MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE]; + struct buffer_head *bh, *head; unsigned int blocksize, bbits; int nr, i; int fully_mapped = 1; @@ -2335,7 +2335,7 @@ int block_read_full_folio(struct folio *folio, get_block_t *get_block) if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) continue; } - arr[nr++] = bh; + nr++; } while (i++, iblock++, (bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); if (fully_mapped) @@ -2352,25 +2352,29 @@ int block_read_full_folio(struct folio *folio, get_block_t *get_block) return 0; } - /* Stage two: lock the buffers */ - for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) { - bh = arr[i]; + /* + * Stage two: lock the buffers. Recheck the uptodate flag under + * the lock in case somebody else brought it uptodate first. + */ + bh = head; + do { + if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) + continue; lock_buffer(bh); + if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) { + unlock_buffer(bh); + continue; + } mark_buffer_async_read(bh); - } + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); - /* - * Stage 3: start the IO. Check for uptodateness - * inside the buffer lock in case another process reading - * the underlying blockdev brought it uptodate (the sct fix). - */ - for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) { - bh = arr[i]; - if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) - end_buffer_async_read(bh, 1); - else + /* Stage 3: start the IO */ + bh = head; + do { + if (buffer_async_read(bh)) submit_bh(REQ_OP_READ, bh); - } + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_read_full_folio); I do wonder how much it's worth doing this vs switching to non-BH methods. I appreciate that's a lot of work still.