From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> It is often the case that we mark buffer as having dirty metadata when the buffer is already in that state (frequent for bitmaps, inode table blocks, superblock). Thus it is unnecessary to contend on grabbing journal head reference and bh_state lock. Avoid that by checking whether any modification to the buffer is needed before grabbing any locks or references. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Ted, this is the speedup patch with fixed assertion. It survived several hours of beating with xfstests generic/269. Ming Lei, can you verify this patch passes testing on your machine as well? Thanks! diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index f3d06174b051..546ce0e76605 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -1280,8 +1280,6 @@ void jbd2_buffer_abort_trigger(struct journal_head *jh, triggers->t_abort(triggers, jh2bh(jh)); } - - /** * int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() - mark a buffer as containing dirty metadata * @handle: transaction to add buffer to. @@ -1314,12 +1312,41 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) if (is_handle_aborted(handle)) return -EROFS; - journal = transaction->t_journal; - jh = jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head(bh); - if (!jh) { + if (!buffer_jbd(bh)) { ret = -EUCLEAN; goto out; } + /* + * We don't grab jh reference here since the buffer must be part + * of the running transaction. + */ + jh = bh2jh(bh); + /* + * This and the following assertions are unreliable since we may see jh + * in inconsistent state unless we grab bh_state lock. But this is + * crutial to catch bugs so let's do a reliable check until the + * lockless handling is fully proven. + */ + if (jh->b_transaction != transaction && + jh->b_next_transaction != transaction) { + jbd_lock_bh_state(bh); + J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction == transaction || + jh->b_next_transaction == transaction); + jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); + } + if (jh->b_modified == 1) { + /* If it's in our transaction it must be in BJ_Metadata list. */ + if (jh->b_transaction == transaction && + jh->b_jlist != BJ_Metadata) { + jbd_lock_bh_state(bh); + J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction != transaction || + jh->b_jlist == BJ_Metadata); + jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); + } + goto out; + } + + journal = transaction->t_journal; jbd_debug(5, "journal_head %p\n", jh); JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "entry"); @@ -1410,7 +1437,6 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); out_unlock_bh: jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); - jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh); out: JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "exit"); return ret; -- 2.1.4 -- 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