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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2025-05-15 10:39:23 -0700
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-05-21 09:34:29 +0200
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fs/buffer: avoid redundant lookup in getblk slowpath
__getblk_slow() already implies failing a first lookup as the fastpath, so try to create the buffers immediately and avoid the redundant lookup. This saves 5-10% of the total cost/latency of the slowpath. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250515173925.147823-3-dave@stgolabs.net Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 8563d949cd2c..23773b750524 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1139,15 +1139,15 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head *bh;
+ if (!grow_buffers(bdev, block, size, gfp))
+ return NULL;
+
if (blocking)
bh = __find_get_block_nonatomic(bdev, block, size);
else
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
-
- if (!grow_buffers(bdev, block, size, gfp))
- return NULL;
}
}