The patch titled Subject: cifs: use find_get_pages_range_tag() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Subject: cifs: use find_get_pages_range_tag() wdata_alloc_and_fillpages() needlessly iterates calls to find_get_pages_tag(). Also it wants only pages from given range. Make it use find_get_pages_range_tag(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-17-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/file.c | 21 ++------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/cifs/file.c~cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag fs/cifs/file.c --- a/fs/cifs/file.c~cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag +++ a/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -1963,8 +1963,6 @@ wdata_alloc_and_fillpages(pgoff_t tofind pgoff_t end, pgoff_t *index, unsigned int *found_pages) { - unsigned int nr_pages; - struct page **pages; struct cifs_writedata *wdata; wdata = cifs_writedata_alloc((unsigned int)tofind, @@ -1972,23 +1970,8 @@ wdata_alloc_and_fillpages(pgoff_t tofind if (!wdata) return NULL; - /* - * find_get_pages_tag seems to return a max of 256 on each - * iteration, so we must call it several times in order to - * fill the array or the wsize is effectively limited to - * 256 * PAGE_SIZE. - */ - *found_pages = 0; - pages = wdata->pages; - do { - nr_pages = find_get_pages_tag(mapping, index, - PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, tofind, - pages); - *found_pages += nr_pages; - tofind -= nr_pages; - pages += nr_pages; - } while (nr_pages && tofind && *index <= end); - + *found_pages = find_get_pages_range_tag(mapping, index, end, + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, tofind, wdata->pages); return wdata; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are mm-readahead-increase-maximum-readahead-window.patch mm-implement-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch btrfs-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch ceph-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch ext4-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch f2fs-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch f2fs-simplify-page-iteration-loops.patch f2fs-use-find_get_pages_tag-for-looking-up-single-page.patch gfs2-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch nilfs2-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch mm-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag-in-__filemap_fdatawait_range.patch mm-use-pagevec_lookup_range_tag-in-write_cache_pages.patch mm-add-variant-of-pagevec_lookup_range_tag-taking-number-of-pages.patch ceph-use-pagevec_lookup_range_nr_tag.patch mm-remove-nr_pages-argument-from-pagevec_lookup_range_tag.patch afs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch cifs-use-find_get_pages_range_tag.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html