Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> says:
There are four benefits to this patchset. First, it removes an
indirect function call from the completion path. Instead of setting
bio->bi_end_io to end_bio_bh_io_sync() which then calls bh->b_end_io(),
we set bio->bi_end_io to the appropriate completion handler, replacing
two indirect function calls with one.
Second, there is a slight security advantage to this. It is one fewer
function pointer in the middle of a writable data structure that can
be corrupted. Third, it shrinks struct buffer_head from 104 bytes to 96
bytes, allowing for appropriximately 7% reduction in the amount of memory
used by buffer_heads (or, alternatively, allows 7% more buffer_heads to
be cached in the same amount of memory). Fourth, it removes some
atomic operations as the buffer refcount is no longer incremented before
calling the end_io handler.
I've run ext4 through its paces, and everything seems OK. I've only
compiled ocfs2/gfs2/nilfs/md-bitmap. Hopefully the maintainers can give
this series a try. I'm sending the entire series to linux-fsdevel
and cc'ing the fs-specific mailing lists for the fs-specific patches.
* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/
20260528173150.
1093780-1-willy@infradead.org: (34 commits)
buffer: Remove end_buffer_write_sync()
buffer: Change calling convention for end_buffer_read_sync()
buffer: Remove b_end_io
buffer: Remove submit_bh()
md-bitmap: Convert read_file_page and write_file_page to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_mdt_submit_block to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_btnode_submit_block to bh_submit()
buffer: Remove mark_buffer_async_write()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_aspace_write_folio to bh_submit()
gfs2: Remove use of b_end_io in gfs2_meta_read_endio()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_dir_readahead to bh_submit()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_metapath_ra to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_super_or_backup to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_blocks to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_block to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_block to bh_submit()
jbd2: Convert jbd2_write_superblock() to bh_submit()
jbd2: Convert journal commit to bh_submit()
ext4: Convert ext4_commit_super() to bh_submit()
...
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>