This patch looks like it should be in the 3.11-stable tree, should we apply
it?
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From: "Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>"
commit 9c12a831d73dd938a22418d70b39aed4feb4bdf2 upstream
The Linux Kernel Performance project guys have reported that commit
4e7ea81db5 introduces a performance regression for the following fio
workload:
[global]
direct=0
ioengine=mmap
size=1500M
bs=4k
pre_read=1
numjobs=1
overwrite=1
loops=5
runtime=300
group_reporting
invalidate=0
directory=/mnt/
file_service_type=random:36
file_service_type=random:36
[job0]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f1:data0/f2
[job1]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
...
[job7]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
The culprit of the problem is that after the commit ext4_writepages()
are more aggressive in writing back pages. Thus we have less consecutive
dirty pages resulting in more seeking.
This increased aggressivity is caused by a bug in the condition
terminating ext4_writepages(). We start writing from the beginning of
the file even if we should have terminated ext4_writepages() because
wbc->nr_to_write <= 0.
After fixing the condition the throughput of the fio workload is about 20%
better than before writeback reorganization.
Reported-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index ea4d188..f2ab232 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2560,7 +2560,7 @@ retry:
break;
}
blk_finish_plug(&plug);
- if (!ret && !cycled) {
+ if (!ret && !cycled && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
cycled = 1;
mpd.last_page = writeback_index - 1;
mpd.first_page = 0;
--
1.7.9.5
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