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Vincent Whitchurch e994f5b677 squashfs: cache partial compressed blocks 
Before commit 93e72b3c61 ("squashfs: migrate from ll_rw_block
usage to BIO"), compressed blocks read by squashfs were cached in the page
cache, but that is not the case after that commit.  That has lead to
squashfs having to re-read a lot of sectors from disk/flash.

For example, the first sectors of every metadata block need to be read
twice from the disk.  Once partially to read the length, and a second time
to read the block itself.  Also, in linear reads of large files, the last
sectors of one data block are re-read from disk when reading the next data
block, since the compressed blocks are of variable sizes and not aligned
to device blocks.  This extra I/O results in a degrade in read performance
of, for example, ~16% in one scenario on my ARM platform using squashfs
with dm-verity and NAND.

Since the decompressed data is cached in the page cache or squashfs'
internal metadata and fragment caches, caching _all_ compressed pages
would lead to a lot of double caching and is undesirable.  But make the
code cache any disk blocks which were only partially requested, since
these are the ones likely to include data which is needed by other file
system blocks.  This restores read performance in my test scenario.

The compressed block caching is only applied when the disk block size is
equal to the page size, to avoid having to deal with caching sub-page
reads.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/squashfs/block.c needs linux/pagemap.h]
[vincent.whitchurch@axis.com: fix page update race]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230526-squashfs-cache-fixup-v1-1-d54a7fa23e7b@axis.com
[vincent.whitchurch@axis.com: fix page indices]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230526-squashfs-cache-fixup-v1-2-d54a7fa23e7b@axis.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout, per hch]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230510-squashfs-cache-v4-1-3bd394e1ee71@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 		2023-06-09 17:44:14 -07:00
Documentation A set of fixes for interrupt chip drivers: 2023-05-28 07:12:21 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
arch add intptr_t 2023-06-09 17:44:13 -07:00
block block: make bio_check_eod work for zero sized devices 2023-05-24 08:19:26 -06:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto This push fixes the following problems: 2023-05-07 10:57:14 -07:00
drivers A set of fixes for interrupt chip drivers: 2023-05-28 07:12:21 -04:00
fs squashfs: cache partial compressed blocks 2023-06-09 17:44:14 -07:00
include add intptr_t 2023-06-09 17:44:13 -07:00
init Objtool changes for v6.4: 2023-04-28 14:02:54 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: unlock sqd->lock before sq thread release CPU 2023-05-25 09:30:13 -06:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel fork: optimize memcg_charge_kernel_stack() a bit 2023-06-09 17:44:13 -07:00
lib add intptr_t 2023-06-09 17:44:13 -07:00
mm mm: fix zswap writeback race condition 2023-05-17 15:24:33 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 6.4-rc4, including fixes from bluetooth and bpf 2023-05-25 10:55:26 -07:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Drop unnecessary fallthrough 2023-05-16 19:44:05 +02:00
scripts scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt 2023-06-09 17:44:13 -07:00
security integrity-v6.4 2023-04-29 10:11:32 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable headset onLenovo M70/M90 2023-05-24 14:18:59 +02:00
tools cxl fixes for v6.4-rc4 2023-05-26 17:45:24 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races 2023-05-19 13:56:26 -04:00
.clang-format cxl for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:51:51 -07:00
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.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Nikolay Aleksandrov 2023-05-17 09:35:05 +01:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 6.4 2023-05-26 16:17:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4-rc4 2023-05-28 07:49:00 -04:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.