From 885bceca7ff12021c9c17f58d12e12ec6e8e59a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:57:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] GFS2: Plug on AIL flush When we do a flush of the AIL list, we are writing out what is likely to be a lot of small I/Os, which are possibly in an order which is not ideal performance-wise. Since this is done by calling filemap_fdatatwrite for each individual inode's address space there is no overall plugging going on. In addition to that, we do not always wait for AIL i/o when we flush it, so that it is possible for things to get left behind on the queue. By adding explicit plugging here, we reduce the chances of this being an issues. A quick test using the AIL flush tracepoint shows a small, but measurable improvement. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse --- fs/gfs2/log.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c index 9dcb9777a5f8..1e1bda0de43d 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/log.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -145,8 +146,10 @@ void gfs2_ail1_flush(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct writeback_control *wbc) { struct list_head *head = &sdp->sd_ail1_list; struct gfs2_trans *tr; + struct blk_plug plug; trace_gfs2_ail_flush(sdp, wbc, 1); + blk_start_plug(&plug); spin_lock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock); restart: list_for_each_entry_reverse(tr, head, tr_list) { @@ -156,6 +159,7 @@ restart: goto restart; } spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); trace_gfs2_ail_flush(sdp, wbc, 0); } -- 2.39.5