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Message-ID: <20090924073615.GA21733@localhost>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:36:15 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"jens.axboe@...cle.com" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] page-writeback: move indoes from one superblock together
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:29:35PM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:14:15 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 02:54:20PM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote:
> > > __mark_inode_dirty adds inode to wb dirty list in random order. If
> > > a disk has several partitions, writeback might keep spindle moving
> > > between partitions. To reduce the move, better write big chunk of
> > > one partition and then move to another. Inodes from one fs usually
> > > are in one partion, so idealy move indoes from one fs together
> > > should reduce spindle move. This patch tries to address this.
> > > Before per-bdi writeback is added, the behavior is write indoes
> > > from one fs first and then another, so the patch restores previous
> > > behavior. The loop in the patch is a bit ugly, should we add a
> > > dirty list for each superblock in bdi_writeback?
> > >
> > > Test in a two partition disk with attached fio script shows about
> > > 3% ~ 6% improvement.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> >
> > Good idea! The optimization looks good to me, it addresses one
> > weakness of per-bdi writeback.
> >
> > But one problem is, Jan Kara and me are planning to remove b_io and
> > hence this move_expired_inodes() function. Not sure how to do this
> > optimization without b_io.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > index 8e1e5e1..fc87730 100644
> > > --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > @@ -324,13 +324,29 @@ static void move_expired_inodes(struct
> > > list_head *delaying_queue, struct list_head *dispatch_queue,
> > > unsigned long *older_than_this)
> > > {
> > > + LIST_HEAD(tmp);
> > > + struct list_head *pos, *node;
> > > + struct super_block *sb;
> > > + struct inode *inode;
> > > +
> > > while (!list_empty(delaying_queue)) {
> > > - struct inode *inode =
> > > list_entry(delaying_queue->prev,
> > > - struct inode,
> > > i_list);
> > > + inode = list_entry(delaying_queue->prev, struct
> > > inode, i_list); if (older_than_this &&
> > > inode_dirtied_after(inode, *older_than_this))
> > > break;
> > > - list_move(&inode->i_list, dispatch_queue);
> > > + list_move(&inode->i_list, &tmp);
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + /* Move indoes from one superblock together */
> > > + while (!list_empty(&tmp)) {
> > > + inode = list_entry(tmp.prev, struct inode, i_list);
> > > + sb = inode->i_sb;
> > > + list_for_each_prev_safe(pos, node, &tmp) {
> >
> > We are in spin lock, so not necessary to use the safe version?
> >
>
> safe is needed for list walks that remove entries from the list
> has nothing to do with locking ;-)
Ah yes, thanks!
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