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authorHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>2008-04-28 13:16:05 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 19:58:43 +0400
commit3d61f75eefedf75914ab4453c67aaa2ee64bcf93 (patch)
tree7a6c2c461a05f36694466dac40f386b11d15dac2 /fs/ext3
parent8b91582500ae750db22bd515379616e5e9ad06ab (diff)
downloadlinux-3d61f75eefedf75914ab4453c67aaa2ee64bcf93.tar.xz
ext3: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout when overwriting
Currently fdatasync is identical to fsync in ext3. I think fdatasync should skip journal flush in data=ordered and data=writeback mode when it overwrites to already-instantiated blocks on HDD. When I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is not set, fdatasync should skip journal writeout because this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates. Following patch is the same approach of ext2's fsync code(ext2_sync_file). I did a performance test using the sysbench. #sysbench --num-threads=128 --max-requests=50000 --test=fileio --file-total-size=128G --file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run The result on ext3 was: -2.6.24 Operations performed: 0 Read, 50080 Write, 59600 Other = 109680 Total Read 0b Written 782.5Mb Total transferred 782.5Mb (12.116Mb/sec) 775.45 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 64.5814s total number of events: 50080 total time taken by event execution: 3713.9836 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0742s max: 0.9375s approx. 95 percentile: 0.2901s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 391.2500/23.26 execution time (avg/stddev): 29.0155/1.99 -2.6.24-patched Operations performed: 0 Read, 50009 Write, 61596 Other = 111605 Total Read 0b Written 781.39Mb Total transferred 781.39Mb (16.419Mb/sec) 1050.83 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 47.5900s total number of events: 50009 total time taken by event execution: 2934.5768 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0587s max: 0.8938s approx. 95 percentile: 0.1993s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 390.6953/22.64 execution time (avg/stddev): 22.9264/1.17 Filesystem I/O throughput was improved. Signed-off-by :Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/fsync.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/fsync.c b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
index a588e23841d4..d33634119e17 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
goto out;
}
+ if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
+ goto out;
+
/*
* The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered
* then we need not start a commit.