linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/12] f2fs: remove writepages lock

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 17:03:38 -0700
From:	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 12/12] f2fs: remove writepages lock

This patch removes writepages lock.
We can improve multi-threading performance.

tiobench, 32 threads, 4KB write per fsync on SSD
Before: 25.88 MB/s
After: 28.03 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/data.c  | 7 -------
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h  | 1 -
 fs/f2fs/super.c | 1 -
 3 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index 287582e..7132b02 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -1443,7 +1443,6 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
-	bool locked = false;
 	int ret;
 	long diff;
 
@@ -1472,14 +1471,8 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 	diff = nr_pages_to_write(sbi, DATA, wbc);
 
-	if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
-		mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages);
-		locked = true;
-	}
 	ret = f2fs_write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __f2fs_writepage, mapping);
 	f2fs_submit_merged_bio_cond(sbi, inode, NULL, 0, DATA, WRITE);
-	if (locked)
-		mutex_unlock(&sbi->writepages);
 
 	remove_dirty_inode(inode);
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 97cd3c8..b622df4 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -770,7 +770,6 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
 	struct mutex cp_mutex;			/* checkpoint procedure lock */
 	struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem;		/* blocking FS operations */
 	struct rw_semaphore node_write;		/* locking node writes */
-	struct mutex writepages;		/* mutex for writepages() */
 	wait_queue_head_t cp_wait;
 	unsigned long last_time[MAX_TIME];	/* to store time in jiffies */
 	long interval_time[MAX_TIME];		/* to store thresholds */
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 5696dff..52cb390 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -1615,7 +1615,6 @@ try_onemore:
 	sbi->raw_super = raw_super;
 	sbi->valid_super_block = valid_super_block;
 	mutex_init(&sbi->gc_mutex);
-	mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);
 	mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);
 	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);
 
-- 
2.6.3