Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:10:25 -0500
From:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...hat.com>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] imporve jbd2 fsync batching

Hello,

This is the jbd2 version of the jbd fsync batching patch.

This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self optimizing
approach where we measure the average amount of time it takes to commit a
transaction to disk and the ammount of time a transaction has been running.  If
somebody does a sync write or an fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1
jiffies, which depending on the value of HZ could be a significant amount of
time compared to how long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying
storage.  With this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if
the amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the average
commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using schedule_hrtimeout to
give us a higher precision sleep time.  This greatly benefits high end storage
where you could end up sleeping for longer than it takes to commit the
transaction and therefore sitting idle instead of allowing the transaction to be
committed by keeping the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be
doing something.  Thank you,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...hat.com>

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 8b119e1..3169db9 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 	int flags;
 	int err;
 	unsigned long long blocknr;
+	ktime_t start_time;
+	u64 commit_time;
 	char *tagp = NULL;
 	journal_header_t *header;
 	journal_block_tag_t *tag = NULL;
@@ -458,6 +460,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 	commit_transaction->t_state = T_FLUSH;
 	journal->j_committing_transaction = commit_transaction;
 	journal->j_running_transaction = NULL;
+	start_time = ktime_get();
 	commit_transaction->t_log_start = journal->j_head;
 	wake_up(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked);
 	spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
@@ -972,6 +975,17 @@ restart_loop:
 	J_ASSERT(commit_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction);
 	journal->j_commit_sequence = commit_transaction->t_tid;
 	journal->j_committing_transaction = NULL;
+	commit_time = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(ktime_get(), start_time));
+
+	/*
+	 * weight the commit time higher than the average time so we don't
+	 * react too strongly to vast changes in the commit time
+	 */
+	if (likely(journal->j_average_commit_time))
+		journal->j_average_commit_time = (commit_time*3 +
+				journal->j_average_commit_time) / 4;
+	else
+		journal->j_average_commit_time = commit_time;
 	spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
 	if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL &&
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 39b7805..ef705f9 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 
 static void __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
 
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ jbd2_get_transaction(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction)
 {
 	transaction->t_journal = journal;
 	transaction->t_state = T_RUNNING;
+	transaction->t_start_time = ktime_get();
 	transaction->t_tid = journal->j_transaction_sequence++;
 	transaction->t_expires = jiffies + journal->j_commit_interval;
 	spin_lock_init(&transaction->t_handle_lock);
@@ -1193,7 +1195,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 {
 	transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction;
 	journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;
-	int old_handle_count, err;
+	int err;
 	pid_t pid;
 
 	J_ASSERT(journal_current_handle() == handle);
@@ -1222,6 +1224,17 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 	 * on IO anyway.  Speeds up many-threaded, many-dir operations
 	 * by 30x or more...
 	 *
+	 * We try and optimize the sleep time against what the underlying disk
+	 * can do, instead of having a static sleep time.  This is usefull for
+	 * the case where our storage is so fast that it is more optimal to go
+	 * ahead and force a flush and wait for the transaction to be committed
+	 * than it is to wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
+	 * join the transaction.  We acheive this by measuring how long it takes
+	 * to commit a transaction, and compare it with how long this
+	 * transaction has been running, and if run time < commit time then we
+	 * sleep for the delta and commit.  This greatly helps super fast disks
+	 * that would see slowdowns as more threads started doing fsyncs.
+	 *
 	 * But don't do this if this process was the most recent one to
 	 * perform a synchronous write.  We do this to detect the case where a
 	 * single process is doing a stream of sync writes.  No point in waiting
@@ -1229,11 +1242,26 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 	 */
 	pid = current->pid;
 	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
+		u64 commit_time, trans_time;
+
 		journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;
-		do {
-			old_handle_count = transaction->t_handle_count;
-			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
-		} while (old_handle_count != transaction->t_handle_count);
+
+		spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+		commit_time = journal->j_average_commit_time;
+		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+		trans_time = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(ktime_get(),
+						   transaction->t_start_time));
+
+		commit_time = min_t(u64, commit_time,
+				    1000*jiffies_to_usecs(1));
+
+		if (trans_time < commit_time) {
+			ktime_t expires = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(),
+						       commit_time);
+			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			schedule_hrtimeout(&expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+		}
 	}
 
 	current->journal_info = NULL;
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
index c7d106e..b8b8744 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
@@ -637,6 +637,11 @@ struct transaction_s
 	unsigned long		t_expires;
 
 	/*
+	 * When this transaction started, in nanoseconds [no locking]
+	 */
+	ktime_t			t_start_time;
+
+	/*
 	 * How many handles used this transaction? [t_handle_lock]
 	 */
 	int t_handle_count;
@@ -938,8 +943,18 @@ struct journal_s
 	struct buffer_head	**j_wbuf;
 	int			j_wbufsize;
 
+	/*
+	 * this is the pid of hte last person to run a synchronous operation
+	 * through the journal
+	 */
 	pid_t			j_last_sync_writer;
 
+	/*
+	 * the average amount of time in nanoseconds it takes to commit a
+	 * transaction to disk. [j_state_lock]
+	 */
+	u64			j_average_commit_time;
+
 	/* This function is called when a transaction is closed */
 	void			(*j_commit_callback)(journal_t *,
 						     transaction_t *);
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