-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Badari Pulavarty ext3-get-blocks support caused ~20% degrade in Sequential read performance (tiobench). Problem is with marking the buffer boundary so IO can be submitted right away. Here is the patch to fix it. 2.6.18-rc6: ----------- # ./iotest 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 75.2726 seconds, 57.1 MB/s real 1m15.285s user 0m0.276s sys 0m3.884s 2.6.18-rc6 + fix: ----------------- [root@elm3a241 ~]# ./iotest 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 62.9356 seconds, 68.2 MB/s The boundary block check in ext3_get_blocks_handle needs to be adjusted against the count of blocks mapped in this call, now that it can map more than one block. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext3/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.17.13.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ linux-2.6.17.13/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *han set_buffer_new(bh_result); got_it: map_bh(bh_result, inode->i_sb, le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key)); - if (blocks_to_boundary == 0) + if (count > blocks_to_boundary) set_buffer_boundary(bh_result); err = count; /* Clean up and exit */ -- - 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/