Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 14:53:53 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org,
        syzbot+a440341a59e3b7142895@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 01/12] splice: Fix O_DIRECT file read splice to avoid
 reversion of ITER_PIPE
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 10:29:43AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> +	npages = alloc_pages_bulk_list(GFP_USER, npages, &pages);

Please don't use alloc_pages_bulk_list().  If nobody uses it, it can go
away again soon.  Does alloc_pages_bulk_array() work for you?  It's
faster.

> +	/* Free any pages that didn't get touched at all. */
> +	for (; reclaim >= PAGE_SIZE; reclaim -= PAGE_SIZE)
> +		__free_page(bv[--npages].bv_page);

If you have that array, you can then use release_pages() to free
them, which will be faster.