Miao Xie
2012-Sep-13 10:53 UTC
[PATCH 2/2] Revert "Btrfs: do not do filemap_write_and_wait_range in fsync"
This reverts commit 0885ef5b5601e9b007c383e77c172769b1f214fd After applying the above patch, the performance slowed down because the dirty page flush can only be done by one task, so revert it. The following is the test result of sysbench: Before After 24MB/s 39MB/s Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> --- fs/btrfs/file.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index 1a5f76b..1ea5c39 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1513,12 +1513,20 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) trace_btrfs_sync_file(file, datasync); + /* + * We write the dirty pages in the range and wait until they complete + * out of the ->i_mutex. If so, we can flush the dirty pages by + * multi-task, and make the performance up. + */ + ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end); + if (ret) + return ret; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); /* - * we wait first, since the writeback may change the inode, also wait - * ordered range does a filemape_write_and_wait_range which is why we - * don''t do it above like other file systems. + * We flush the dirty pages again to avoid some dirty pages in the + * range being left. */ atomic_inc(&root->log_batch); btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start, end); -- 1.7.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Josef Bacik
2012-Sep-13 12:38 UTC
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "Btrfs: do not do filemap_write_and_wait_range in fsync"
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:53:47AM -0600, Miao Xie wrote:> This reverts commit 0885ef5b5601e9b007c383e77c172769b1f214fd > > After applying the above patch, the performance slowed down because the dirty > page flush can only be done by one task, so revert it. > > The following is the test result of sysbench: > Before After > 24MB/s 39MB/s >Ah I didn''t think about that, good point, thanks! Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html