block_dev: implement readpages() to optimize sequential read
Sequential read from a block device is expected to be equal or faster than
from the file on a filesystem. But it is not correct due to the lack of
effective readpages() in the address space operations for block device.
This implements readpages() operation for block device by using
mpage_readpages() which can create multipage BIOs instead of BIOs for each
page and reduce system CPU time consumption.
Install 1GB of RAM disk storage:
# modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 delay=0
Sequential read from file on a filesystem:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/$DEV
# mount /dev/$DEV /mnt
# fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/mnt/file
...
read : io=524288KB, bw=2133.4MB/s, iops=546133, runt= 240msec
Sequential read from a block device:
# fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/dev/$DEV
...
(Without this commit)
read : io=524288KB, bw=1700.2MB/s, iops=435455, runt= 301msec
(With this commit)
read : io=524288KB, bw=2160.4MB/s, iops=553046, runt= 237msec
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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