On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:15:23PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Here is a pointer to the older patch & some results: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg13121.html > > I will retry this on some updated kernels, but would not expect to see a > difference since the code has not been changed ;-) > Ok here are the numbers with the original idea I had proposed. type threads base patch speedup sata 1 17.9 17.3 0.97 sata 2 33.2 34.2 1.03 sata 4 58.4 63.6 1.09 sata 8 78.8 80.8 1.03 sata 16 94.4 97.6 1.16 ram 1 2394.4 1878.0 0.78 ram 2 989.6 2041.1 2.06 ram 4 1466.1 3201.8 2.18 ram 8 1858.1 3362.8 1.81 ram 16 3008.0 3227.7 1.07 I've got to find a fast disk array to test this with, but the ramdisk results make me happy, though they were kind of irratic, so I think the fast disk array will be a more stable measure of how well this patch does, but it definitely doesn't hurt the slow case, and brings stability to the fast case. Thanks much, Josef Index: linux-2.6/fs/jbd/commit.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/jbd/commit.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/jbd/commit.c @@ -273,6 +273,15 @@ write_out_data: journal_do_submit_data(wbuf, bufs); } +static inline unsigned long elapsed_jiffies(unsigned long start, + unsigned long end) +{ + if (end >= start) + return end - start; + + return end + (MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET - start) + 1; +} + /* * journal_commit_transaction * @@ -288,6 +297,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_ int flags; int err; unsigned long blocknr; + unsigned long long commit_time, start_time; char *tagp = NULL; journal_header_t *header; journal_block_tag_t *tag = NULL; @@ -400,6 +410,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_ commit_transaction->t_state = T_FLUSH; journal->j_committing_transaction = commit_transaction; journal->j_running_transaction = NULL; + start_time = jiffies; commit_transaction->t_log_start = journal->j_head; wake_up(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked); spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); @@ -873,6 +884,12 @@ restart_loop: J_ASSERT(commit_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction); journal->j_commit_sequence = commit_transaction->t_tid; journal->j_committing_transaction = NULL; + commit_time = elapsed_jiffies(start_time, jiffies); + if (unlikely(!journal->j_average_commit_time)) + journal->j_average_commit_time = commit_time; + else + journal->j_average_commit_time = (commit_time + + journal->j_average_commit_time) / 2; spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL && Index: linux-2.6/fs/jbd/transaction.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/jbd/transaction.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/jbd/transaction.c @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ get_transaction(journal_t *journal, tran { transaction->t_journal = journal; transaction->t_state = T_RUNNING; + transaction->t_start_time = jiffies; transaction->t_tid = journal->j_transaction_sequence++; transaction->t_expires = jiffies + journal->j_commit_interval; spin_lock_init(&transaction->t_handle_lock); @@ -1361,8 +1362,7 @@ int journal_stop(handle_t *handle) { transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction; journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal; - int old_handle_count, err; - pid_t pid; + int err; J_ASSERT(journal_current_handle() == handle); @@ -1395,13 +1395,17 @@ int journal_stop(handle_t *handle) * single process is doing a stream of sync writes. No point in waiting * for joiners in that case. */ - pid = current->pid; - if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) { - journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid; - do { - old_handle_count = transaction->t_handle_count; + if (handle->h_sync) { + unsigned long commit_time; + + spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); + commit_time = journal->j_average_commit_time; + spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); + + while (time_before(jiffies, commit_time + + transaction->t_start_time)) { schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); - } while (old_handle_count != transaction->t_handle_count); + } } current->journal_info = NULL; Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/jbd.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/jbd.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/jbd.h @@ -543,6 +543,11 @@ struct transaction_s unsigned long t_expires; /* + * When this transaction started, in jiffies [no locking] + */ + unsigned long t_start_time; + + /* * How many handles used this transaction? [t_handle_lock] */ int t_handle_count; @@ -800,6 +805,8 @@ struct journal_s pid_t j_last_sync_writer; + unsigned long long j_average_commit_time; + /* * An opaque pointer to fs-private information. ext3 puts its * superblock pointer here -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html