Hi.
I wrote some patch that changed a range of i_mutex on ext2/3/4's lseek.
Ext2/3/4 uses generic_file_llseek, this function is inside i_mutex.
I think there is room for optimization in some cases.
When SEEK_END is specified from caller, in this case we should handle
inode->i_size so i_mutex is needed. But in other cases such as SEEK_CUR or
SEEK_SET, i_mutex is not needed because just changing file->f_pos value without
touching i_size.
I did some test to measure i_mutex contention.
This test do:
1. make an 128MB file.
2. fork 100 processes. repeat 10000000 times lseeking randomly on each process to this file.
3, gauge seconds between start and end of this test.
The result was:
-2.6.29-rc1
# time ./lseek_test
315 sec
real 5m15.407s
user 1m19.128s
sys 5m38.884s
-2.6.29-rc1-patched
# time ./lseek_test
13 sec
real 0m13.039s
user 1m14.730s
sys 2m9.633s
Hardware environment:
CPU 2.4GHz(Quad Core) *4
Memory 64GB
This improvement is derived from just removal of lseek's i_mutex contention.
There is i_mutex contention not only around lseek, but also fsync or write.
So, I think we also can mitigate i_mutex contention between fsync and lseek.
Thanks.
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext2/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext2/file.c
--- linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext2/file.c 2008-12-25 08:26:37.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext2/file.c 2009-01-13 11:58:16.000000000 +0900
@@ -38,12 +38,24 @@ static int ext2_release_file (struct ino
return 0;
}
+static loff_t ext2_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ loff_t retval;
+
+ if (origin == SEEK_END)
+ retval = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, origin);
+ else
+ retval = generic_file_llseek_unlocked(file, offset, origin);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+
/*
* We have mostly NULL's here: the current defaults are ok for
* the ext2 filesystem.
*/
const struct file_operations ext2_file_operations = {
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = ext2_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
.write = do_sync_write,
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
@@ -62,7 +74,7 @@ const struct file_operations ext2_file_o
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP
const struct file_operations ext2_xip_file_operations = {
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = ext2_file_llseek,
.read = xip_file_read,
.write = xip_file_write,
.unlocked_ioctl = ext2_ioctl,
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext3/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext3/file.c
--- linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext3/file.c 2008-12-25 08:26:37.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext3/file.c 2009-01-13 11:58:16.000000000 +0900
@@ -106,8 +106,20 @@ force_commit:
return ret;
}
+static loff_t ext3_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ loff_t retval;
+
+ if (origin == SEEK_END)
+ retval = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, origin);
+ else
+ retval = generic_file_llseek_unlocked(file, offset, origin);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+
const struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = {
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = ext3_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
.write = do_sync_write,
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext4/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext4/file.c
--- linux-2.6.29-rc1.org/fs/ext4/file.c 2009-01-13 11:55:09.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.29-rc1/fs/ext4/file.c 2009-01-13 12:09:59.000000000 +0900
@@ -140,8 +140,20 @@ static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *f
return 0;
}
+static loff_t ext4_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ loff_t retval;
+
+ if (origin == SEEK_END)
+ retval = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, origin);
+ else
+ retval = generic_file_llseek_unlocked(file, offset, origin);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+
const struct file_operations ext4_file_operations = {
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = ext4_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
.write = do_sync_write,
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
Following is the test program "lseek_test.c".
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#define NUM 100
#define LEN 4096
#define LOOP 32*1024
int num;
void catch_SIGCHLD(int signo)
{
pid_t child_pid = 0;
do {
int child_ret;
child_pid = waitpid(-1, &child_ret, WNOHANG);
if (child_pid > 0)
num++;
} while (child_pid > 0);
}
main()
{
int i, pid;
char buf[LEN];
unsigned long offset, filesize;
time_t t1, t2;
struct sigaction act;
memset(buf, 0, LEN);
memset(&act, 0, sizeof(act));
act.sa_handler = catch_SIGCHLD;
act.sa_flags = SA_NOCLDSTOP|SA_RESTART;
sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
sigaction(SIGCHLD, &act, NULL);
filesize = LEN * LOOP;
int fd = open("targetfile1",O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
/* create a 128MB file */
for(i = 0; i < LOOP; i++)
write(fd, buf, LEN);
fsync(fd);
close(fd);
time(&t1);
for (i = 0; i < NUM; i++) {
pid = fork();
if(pid == 0){
/* child */
int fd = open("targetfile1", O_RDWR);
int j;
for (j = 0; j < 10000000; j++) {
offset = (random() % filesize);
lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
}
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
}
while(num < NUM)
sleep(1);
time(&t2);
printf("%d sec\n",t2-t1);
}
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