[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] GFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on GFS2
Steven Whitehouse
swhiteho at redhat.com
Tue Mar 3 11:24:37 UTC 2009
Hi,
Looks good! Applied to the -nmw git tree. Thanks,
Steve.
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 11:45 +0900, Hisashi Hifumi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I introduced "is_partially_uptodate" aops for GFS2.
>
> A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
> can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
> This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
> that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
> read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
> want to read are uptodate.
> "block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
> With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
> random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.
>
> I did a performance test using the sysbench.
>
> #sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=200000 --test=fileio --file-num=1
> --file-block-size=8K --file-total-size=2G --file-test-mode=rndrw --file-fsync-freq=0
> --file-rw-ratio=1 run
>
> -2.6.29-rc6
> Test execution summary:
> total time: 202.6389s
> total number of events: 200000
> total time taken by event execution: 2580.0480
> per-request statistics:
> min: 0.0000s
> avg: 0.0129s
> max: 49.5852s
> approx. 95 percentile: 0.0462s
>
>
> -2.6.29-rc6-patched
> Test execution summary:
> total time: 177.8639s
> total number of events: 200000
> total time taken by event execution: 2419.0199
> per-request statistics:
> min: 0.0000s
> avg: 0.0121s
> max: 52.4306s
> approx. 95 percentile: 0.0444s
>
>
> arch: ia64
> pagesize: 16k
> blocksize: 4k
>
>
> Please merge following patch.
> Thanks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi at oss.ntt.co.jp>
>
> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc6.org/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c linux-2.6.29-rc6/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
> --- linux-2.6.29-rc6.org/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c 2009-03-02 09:26:07.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.29-rc6/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c 2009-03-02 09:47:28.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1096,6 +1096,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operat
> .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
> .direct_IO = gfs2_direct_IO,
> .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page,
> + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
> };
>
> static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_ordered_aops = {
> @@ -1111,6 +1112,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operat
> .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
> .direct_IO = gfs2_direct_IO,
> .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page,
> + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
> };
>
> static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_jdata_aops = {
> @@ -1125,6 +1127,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operat
> .bmap = gfs2_bmap,
> .invalidatepage = gfs2_invalidatepage,
> .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
> + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
> };
>
> void gfs2_set_aops(struct inode *inode)
>
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