netfs: Speed up buffered reading

Improve the efficiency of buffered reads in a number of ways:

 (1) Overhaul the algorithm in general so that it's a lot more compact and
     split the read submission code between buffered and unbuffered
     versions.  The unbuffered version can be vastly simplified.

 (2) Read-result collection is handed off to a work queue rather than being
     done in the I/O thread.  Multiple subrequests can be processes
     simultaneously.

 (3) When a subrequest is collected, any folios it fully spans are
     collected and "spare" data on either side is donated to either the
     previous or the next subrequest in the sequence.

Notes:

 (*) Readahead expansion is massively slows down fio, presumably because it
     causes a load of extra allocations, both folio and xarray, up front
     before RPC requests can be transmitted.

 (*) RDMA with cifs does appear to work, both with SIW and RXE.

 (*) PG_private_2-based reading and copy-to-cache is split out into its own
     file and altered to use folio_queue.  Note that the copy to the cache
     now creates a new write transaction against the cache and adds the
     folios to be copied into it.  This allows it to use part of the
     writeback I/O code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-20-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
index 25fb7e166cc0..975436d3dc3f 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ struct netfs_io_request *netfs_create_write_req(struct address_space *mapping,
 	struct netfs_io_request *wreq;
 	struct netfs_inode *ictx;
 	bool is_buffered = (origin == NETFS_WRITEBACK ||
-			    origin == NETFS_WRITETHROUGH);
+			    origin == NETFS_WRITETHROUGH ||
+			    origin == NETFS_PGPRIV2_COPY_TO_CACHE);
 
 	wreq = netfs_alloc_request(mapping, file, start, 0, origin);
 	if (IS_ERR(wreq))
@@ -161,10 +162,6 @@ static void netfs_prepare_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 
 	_enter("R=%x[%x]", wreq->debug_id, subreq->debug_index);
 
-	trace_netfs_sreq_ref(wreq->debug_id, subreq->debug_index,
-			     refcount_read(&subreq->ref),
-			     netfs_sreq_trace_new);
-
 	trace_netfs_sreq(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_prepare);
 
 	stream->sreq_max_len	= UINT_MAX;
@@ -241,8 +238,8 @@ void netfs_reissue_write(struct netfs_io_stream *stream,
 	netfs_do_issue_write(stream, subreq);
 }
 
-static void netfs_issue_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
-			      struct netfs_io_stream *stream)
+void netfs_issue_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
+		       struct netfs_io_stream *stream)
 {
 	struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq = stream->construct;
 
@@ -259,9 +256,9 @@ static void netfs_issue_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
  * we can avoid overrunning the credits obtained (cifs) and try to parallelise
  * content-crypto preparation with network writes.
  */
-static int netfs_advance_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
-			       struct netfs_io_stream *stream,
-			       loff_t start, size_t len, bool to_eof)
+int netfs_advance_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
+			struct netfs_io_stream *stream,
+			loff_t start, size_t len, bool to_eof)
 {
 	struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq = stream->construct;
 	size_t part;