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Message-ID: <x491v8tvjsm.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:34:49 -0400
From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com> writes:
> Hi Jens,
> any comment on this patch, or the problem we are trying to solve?
Bueller? Bueller?
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com> wrote:
>> Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is
>> lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between
>> the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit.
>>
>> Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing
>> small files and fsync-ing them is starved.
>>
>> This patch fixes the two problems by:
>> - marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE
>> flag set,
>> - force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle
>> tree.
>>
>> Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated
>> to journal commits in the noidle tree allows:
>> - switching between them without idling,
>> - fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only
>> after the noidle tree expires its slice.
>>
>> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
>> Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>
>> ---
>> block/cfq-iosched.c | 18 ++++--------------
>> fs/jbd/commit.c | 2 +-
>> fs/jbd2/commit.c | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> index eb4086f..49dada4 100644
>> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> @@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct cfq_data {
>> enum wl_type_t serving_type;
>> unsigned long workload_expires;
>> struct cfq_group *serving_group;
>> - bool noidle_tree_requires_idle;
>>
>> /*
>> * Each priority tree is sorted by next_request position. These
>> @@ -2126,7 +2125,6 @@ static void choose_service_tree(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_group *cfqg)
>> slice = max_t(unsigned, slice, CFQ_MIN_TT);
>> cfq_log(cfqd, "workload slice:%d", slice);
>> cfqd->workload_expires = jiffies + slice;
>> - cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle = false;
>> }
>>
>> static struct cfq_group *cfq_get_next_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
>> @@ -3108,7 +3106,9 @@ cfq_update_idle_window(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq,
>> if (cfqq->queued[0] + cfqq->queued[1] >= 4)
>> cfq_mark_cfqq_deep(cfqq);
>>
>> - if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle ||
>> + if (cfqq->next_rq && (cfqq->next_rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE))
>> + enable_idle = 0;
>> + else if (!atomic_read(&cic->ioc->nr_tasks) || !cfqd->cfq_slice_idle ||
>> (!cfq_cfqq_deep(cfqq) && CFQQ_SEEKY(cfqq)))
>> enable_idle = 0;
>> else if (sample_valid(cic->ttime_samples)) {
>> @@ -3421,17 +3421,7 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
>> cfq_slice_expired(cfqd, 1);
>> else if (sync && cfqq_empty &&
>> !cfq_close_cooperator(cfqd, cfqq)) {
>> - cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle |=
>> - !(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOIDLE);
>> - /*
>> - * Idling is enabled for SYNC_WORKLOAD.
>> - * SYNC_NOIDLE_WORKLOAD idles at the end of the tree
>> - * only if we processed at least one !REQ_NOIDLE request
>> - */
>> - if (cfqd->serving_type == SYNC_WORKLOAD
>> - || cfqd->noidle_tree_requires_idle
>> - || cfqq->cfqg->nr_cfqq == 1)
>> - cfq_arm_slice_timer(cfqd);
>> + cfq_arm_slice_timer(cfqd);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
>> index 28a9dda..d97a0c6 100644
>> --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
>> +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
>> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
>> int first_tag = 0;
>> int tag_flag;
>> int i;
>> - int write_op = WRITE;
>> + int write_op = WRITE_SYNC;
>>
>> /*
>> * First job: lock down the current transaction and wait for
>> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
>> index 75716d3..a078744 100644
>> --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
>> +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
>> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
>> int tag_bytes = journal_tag_bytes(journal);
>> struct buffer_head *cbh = NULL; /* For transactional checksums */
>> __u32 crc32_sum = ~0;
>> - int write_op = WRITE;
>> + int write_op = WRITE_SYNC;
>>
>> /*
>> * First job: lock down the current transaction and wait for
>> --
>> 1.6.2.5
>>
>>
>>
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