cifs: Fix read-performance regression by dropping readahead expansion
cifs_expand_read() is causing a performance regression of around 30% by causing extra pagecache to be allocated for an inode in the readahead path before we begin actually dispatching RPC requests, thereby delaying the actual I/O. The expansion is sized according to the rsize parameter, which seems to be 4MiB on my test system; this is a big step up from the first requests made by the fio test program. Simple repro (look at read bandwidth number): fio --name=writetest --filename=/xfstest.test/foo --time_based --runtime=60 --size=16M --numjobs=1 --rw=read Fix this by removing cifs_expand_readahead(). Readahead expansion is mostly useful for when we're using the local cache if the local cache has a block size greater than PAGE_SIZE, so we can dispense with it when not caching. Fixes: 69c3c023 ("cifs: Implement netfslib hooks") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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