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    • Hisashi Hifumi's avatar
      ext4: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout when overwriting · 53c550e9
      Hisashi Hifumi authored 
      Currently fdatasync is identical to fsync in ext3.

I think fdatasync should skip journal flush in data=ordered and
data=writeback mode when it overwrites to already-instantiated blocks on
HDD.  When I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is not set, fdatasync should skip journal
writeout because this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates.

Following patch is the same approach of ext2's fsync code(ext2_sync_file).

I did a performance test using the sysbench.

#sysbench --num-threads=128 --max-requests=50000 --test=fileio --file-total-size=128G
--file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run

The result on ext3 was:

	-2.6.24
	Operations performed:  0 Read, 50080 Write, 59600 Other = 109680 Total
	Read 0b  Written 782.5Mb  Total transferred 782.5Mb  (12.116Mb/sec)
	  775.45 Requests/sec executed

	Test execution summary:
	    total time:                          64.5814s
	    total number of events:              50080
	    total time taken by event execution: 3713.9836
	    per-request statistics:
	         min:                            0.0000s
	         avg:                            0.0742s
	         max:                            0.9375s
	         approx.  95 percentile:         0.2901s

	Threads fairness:
	    events (avg/stddev):           391.2500/23.26
	    execution time (avg/stddev):   29.0155/1.99

	-2.6.24-patched
	Operations performed:  0 Read, 50009 Write, 61596 Other = 111605 Total
	Read 0b  Written 781.39Mb  Total transferred 781.39Mb  (16.419Mb/sec)
	1050.83 Requests/sec executed

	Test execution summary:
	    total time:                          47.5900s
	    total number of events:              50009
	    total time taken by event execution: 2934.5768
	    per-request statistics:
 	         min:                            0.0000s
	         avg:                            0.0587s
 	         max:                            0.8938s
	         approx.  95 percentile:         0.1993s

	Threads fairness:
	    events (avg/stddev):           390.6953/22.64
	    execution time (avg/stddev):   22.9264/1.17

Filesystem I/O throughput was improved.

Signed-off-by :Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      53c550e9
  13. 30 Apr, 2008 1 commit
  15. 17 Apr, 2008 2 commits
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      jbd2: fix possible journal overflow issues · 1dfc3220
      Josef Bacik authored 
      There are several cases where the running transaction can get buffers
added to its BJ_Metadata list which it never dirtied, which makes its
t_nr_buffers counter end up larger than its t_outstanding_credits
counter.

This will cause issues when starting new transactions as while we are
logging buffers we decrement t_outstanding_buffers, so when
t_outstanding_buffers goes negative, we will report that we need less
space in the journal than we actually need, so transactions will be
started even though there may not be enough room for them.  In the worst
case scenario (which admittedly is almost impossible to reproduce) this
will result in the journal running out of space.

The fix is to only refile buffers from the committing transaction to the
running transactions BJ_Modified list when b_modified is set on that
journal, which is the only way to be sure if the running transaction has
modified that buffer.

This patch also fixes an accounting error in journal_forget, it is
possible that we can call journal_forget on a buffer without having
modified it, only gotten write access to it, so instead of freeing a
credit, we only do so if the buffer was modified.  The assert will help
catch if this problem occurs.  Without these two patches I could hit
this assert within minutes of running postmark, with them this issue no
longer arises.

Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      1dfc3220
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      jbd2: fix the way the b_modified flag is cleared · 9fc7c63a
      Josef Bacik authored 
      Currently at the start of a journal commit we loop through all of the buffers
on the committing transaction and clear the b_modified flag (the flag that is
set when a transaction modifies the buffer) under the j_list_lock.

The problem is that everywhere else this flag is modified only under the jbd2
lock buffer flag, so it will race with a running transaction who could
potentially set it, and have it unset by the committing transaction.

This is also a big waste, you can have several thousands of buffers that you
are clearing the modified flag on when you may not need to.  This patch
removes this code and instead clears the b_modified flag upon entering
do_get_write_access/journal_get_create_access, so if that transaction does
indeed use the buffer then it will be accounted for properly, and if it does
not then we know we didn't use it.

That will be important for the next patch in this series.  Tested thoroughly
by myself using postmark/iozone/bonnie++.

Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      9fc7c63a
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