Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754162AbaDRJtR (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 05:49:17 -0400 Received: from ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz ([83.240.18.248]:45891 "EHLO ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751656AbaDRJWr (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 05:22:47 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , "Theodore Ts'o" , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.12 12/72] ext4: Speedup WB_SYNC_ALL pass called from sync(2) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:21:45 +0200 Message-Id: <3042adcc664cb8ec04af94c04ad00c87c94a8288.1397812482.git.jslaby@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.2 In-Reply-To: <3389f243c528afc7c7300c83b8f296290cd3656d.1397812482.git.jslaby@suse.cz> References: <3389f243c528afc7c7300c83b8f296290cd3656d.1397812482.git.jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Kara 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 10542c229a4e8e25b40357beea66abe9dacda2c0 upstream. When doing filesystem wide sync, there's no need to force transaction commit (or synchronously write inode buffer) separately for each inode because ext4_sync_fs() takes care of forcing commit at the end (VFS takes care of flushing buffer cache, respectively). Most of the time this slowness doesn't manifest because previous WB_SYNC_NONE writeback doesn't leave much to write but when there are processes aggressively creating new files and several filesystems to sync, the sync slowness can be noticeable. In the following test script sync(1) takes around 6 minutes when there are two ext4 filesystems mounted on a standard SATA drive. After this patch sync takes a couple of seconds so we have about two orders of magnitude improvement. function run_writers { for (( i = 0; i < 10; i++ )); do mkdir $1/dir$i for (( j = 0; j < 40000; j++ )); do dd if=/dev/zero of=$1/dir$i/$j bs=4k count=4 &>/dev/null done & done } for dir in "$@"; do run_writers $dir done sleep 40 time sync Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 786bf0708904..f173ef12c97a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4447,7 +4447,12 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) return -EIO; } - if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) + /* + * No need to force transaction in WB_SYNC_NONE mode. Also + * ext4_sync_fs() will force the commit after everything is + * written. + */ + if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync) return 0; err = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb); @@ -4457,7 +4462,11 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) err = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc, 0); if (err) return err; - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + /* + * sync(2) will flush the whole buffer cache. No need to do + * it here separately for each inode. + */ + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL && !wbc->for_sync) sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh); if (buffer_req(iloc.bh) && !buffer_uptodate(iloc.bh)) { EXT4_ERROR_INODE_BLOCK(inode, iloc.bh->b_blocknr, -- 1.9.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/