ll_rw_block() function has been deprecated in favor of BIO which appears
to come with large performance improvements.
This patch decreases boot time by close to 40% when using squashfs for
the root file-system. This is observed at least in the context of
starting an Android VM on Chrome OS using crosvm. The patch was tested
on 4.19 as well as master.
This patch is largely based on Adrien Schildknecht's patch that was
originally sent as https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/22/814 though with some
significant changes and simplifications while also taking Phillip
Lougher's feedback into account, around preserving support for
FILE_CACHE in particular.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build error reported by Randy]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/319997c2-5fc8-f889-2ea3-d913308a7c1f@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Philippe Liard <pliard@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Link: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106074238.186023-1-pliard@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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the copying file in the top level directory
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 35 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.797835076@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler
abstraction. This adds helpers to allow the decompressors
to access and process the output buffers in an implementation
independant manner.
This allows different types of output buffer to be passed
to the decompressors, with the implementation specific
aspects handled at decompression time, but without the
knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code.
This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs
cache buffers, and page cache pages.
This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for
the caches.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Add a multi-threaded decompression implementation which uses
percpu variables.
Using percpu variables has advantages and disadvantages over
implementations which do not use percpu variables.
Advantages:
* the nature of percpu variables ensures decompression is
load-balanced across the multiple cores.
* simplicity.
Disadvantages: it limits decompression to one thread per core.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
