Increasing the batch size runs into diminishing returns. It's probably better to make, eg, three calls to filemap_get_pages() than it is to call into kmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 15 ++------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 23e3781b3aef..bb1c42d0223c 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2429,8 +2429,8 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct file_ra_state *ra = &filp->f_ra; struct address_space *mapping = filp->f_mapping; struct inode *inode = mapping->host; - struct page *pages_onstack[PAGEVEC_SIZE], **pages = NULL; - unsigned int nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, 512, + struct page *pages[PAGEVEC_SIZE]; + unsigned int nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, PAGEVEC_SIZE, ((iocb->ki_pos + iter->count + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT) - (iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT)); int i, pg_nr, error = 0; @@ -2441,14 +2441,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, return 0; iov_iter_truncate(iter, inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes); - if (nr_pages > ARRAY_SIZE(pages_onstack)) - pages = kmalloc_array(nr_pages, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); - - if (!pages) { - pages = pages_onstack; - nr_pages = min_t(unsigned int, nr_pages, ARRAY_SIZE(pages_onstack)); - } - do { cond_resched(); @@ -2533,9 +2525,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, file_accessed(filp); - if (pages != pages_onstack) - kfree(pages); - return written ? written : error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_file_buffered_read); -- 2.28.0