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    • Eric Sandeen's avatar
      ext4: reduce mballoc stack usage with noinline_for_stack · 4ddfef7b
      Eric Sandeen authored
      mballoc.c is a whole lot of static functions, which gcc seems to
      really like to inline.
      
      With the changes below, on x86, I can at least get from:
      
      432 ext4_mb_new_blocks
      240 ext4_mb_free_blocks
      208 ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations
      188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
      164 ext4_mb_init_cache
      152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
      136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
      ...
      
      to
      
      220 ext4_mb_free_blocks
      188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
      176 ext4_mb_regular_allocator
      164 ext4_mb_init_cache
      156 ext4_mb_new_blocks
      152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
      136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
      124 ext4_mb_release_group_pa
      ...
      
      which still has some big functions in there, but not 432 bytes!
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      4ddfef7b
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    • Hisashi Hifumi's avatar
      ext4: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout when overwriting · 53c550e9
      Hisashi Hifumi authored
      Currently fdatasync is identical to fsync in ext3.
      
      I think fdatasync should skip journal flush in data=ordered and
      data=writeback mode when it overwrites to already-instantiated blocks on
      HDD.  When I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is not set, fdatasync should skip journal
      writeout because this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates.
      
      Following patch is the same approach of ext2's fsync code(ext2_sync_file).
      
      I did a performance test using the sysbench.
      
      #sysbench --num-threads=128 --max-requests=50000 --test=fileio --file-total-size=128G
      --file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run
      
      The result on ext3 was:
      
      	-2.6.24
      	Operations performed:  0 Read, 50080 Write, 59600 Other = 109680 Total
      	Read 0b  Written 782.5Mb  Total transferred 782.5Mb  (12.116Mb/sec)
      	  775.45 Requests/sec executed
      
      	Test execution summary:
      	    total time:                          64.5814s
      	    total number of events:              50080
      	    total time taken by event execution: 3713.9836
      	    per-request statistics:
      	         min:                            0.0000s
      	         avg:                            0.0742s
      	         max:                            0.9375s
      	         approx.  95 percentile:         0.2901s
      
      	Threads fairness:
      	    events (avg/stddev):           391.2500/23.26
      	    execution time (avg/stddev):   29.0155/1.99
      
      	-2.6.24-patched
      	Operations performed:  0 Read, 50009 Write, 61596 Other = 111605 Total
      	Read 0b  Written 781.39Mb  Total transferred 781.39Mb  (16.419Mb/sec)
      	1050.83 Requests/sec executed
      
      	Test execution summary:
      	    total time:                          47.5900s
      	    total number of events:              50009
      	    total time taken by event execution: 2934.5768
      	    per-request statistics:
       	         min:                            0.0000s
      	         avg:                            0.0587s
       	         max:                            0.8938s
      	         approx.  95 percentile:         0.1993s
      
      	Threads fairness:
      	    events (avg/stddev):           390.6953/22.64
      	    execution time (avg/stddev):   22.9264/1.17
      
      Filesystem I/O throughput was improved.
      
      Signed-off-by :Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
      Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      53c550e9