1. 24 Feb, 2011 1 commit
    • Bob Peterson's avatar
      GFS2: deallocation performance patch · 4c16c36a
      Bob Peterson authored
      This patch is a performance improvement to GFS2's dealloc code.
      Rather than update the quota file and statfs file for every
      single block that's stripped off in unlink function do_strip,
      this patch keeps track and updates them once for every layer
      that's stripped.  This is done entirely inside the existing
      transaction, so there should be no risk of corruption.
      The other functions that deallocate blocks will be unaffected
      because they are using wrapper functions that do the same
      thing that they do today.
      
      I tested this code on my roth cluster by creating 200
      files in a directory, each of which is 100MB, then on
      four nodes, I simultaneously deleted the files, thus competing
      for GFS2 resources (but different files).  The commands
      I used were:
      
      [root@roth-01]# time for i in `seq 1 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
      [root@roth-02]# time for i in `seq 2 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
      [root@roth-03]# time for i in `seq 3 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
      [root@roth-05]# time for i in `seq 4 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
      
      The performance increase was significant:
      
                   roth-01     roth-02     roth-03     roth-05
                   ---------   ---------   ---------   ---------
      old: real    0m34.027    0m25.021s   0m23.906s   0m35.646s
      new: real    0m22.379s   0m24.362s   0m24.133s   0m18.562s
      
      Total time spent deleting:
      old: 118.6s
      new:  89.4
      
      For this particular case, this showed a 25% performance increase for
      GFS2 unlinks.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      4c16c36a
  2. 07 Feb, 2011 1 commit
  3. 02 Feb, 2011 1 commit
    • Steven Whitehouse's avatar
      GFS2: Improve cluster mmap scalability · b9c93bb7
      Steven Whitehouse authored
      The mmap system call grabs a glock when an update to atime maybe
      required. It does this in order to ensure that the flags on the
      inode are uptodate, but since it will only mark atime for a future
      update, an exclusive lock is not required here (one will be taken
      later when the actual update is performed).
      
      Also, the lock can be skipped when the mount is marked noatime in
      addition to the original check which only looked at the noatime
      flag for the inode itself.
      
      This should increase the scalability of the mmap call when multiple
      nodes are all mmaping the same file.
      Reported-by: default avatarScooter Morris <scooter@cgl.ucsf.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      b9c93bb7
  4. 31 Jan, 2011 1 commit
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