xfs: optimize fsync on directories

Directories are only updated transactionally, which means fsync only
needs to flush the log the inode is currently dirty, but not bother
with checking for dirty data, non-transactional updates, and most
importanly doesn't have to flush disk caches except as part of a
transaction commit.

While the first two optimizations can't easily be measured, the
latter actually makes a difference when doing lots of fsync that do
not actually have to commit the inode, e.g. because an earlier fsync
already pushed the log far enough.

The new xfs_dir_fsync is identical to xfs_nfs_commit_metadata except
for the prototype, but I'm not sure creating a common helper for the
two is worth it given how simple the functions are.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index 0b600b51778..753ed9b5c70 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -124,6 +124,35 @@ xfs_iozero(
 	return (-status);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Fsync operations on directories are much simpler than on regular files,
+ * as there is no file data to flush, and thus also no need for explicit
+ * cache flush operations, and there are no non-transaction metadata updates
+ * on directories either.
+ */
+STATIC int
+xfs_dir_fsync(
+	struct file		*file,
+	loff_t			start,
+	loff_t			end,
+	int			datasync)
+{
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(file->f_mapping->host);
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
+	xfs_lsn_t		lsn = 0;
+
+	trace_xfs_dir_fsync(ip);
+
+	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
+	if (xfs_ipincount(ip))
+		lsn = ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn;
+	xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
+
+	if (!lsn)
+		return 0;
+	return _xfs_log_force_lsn(mp, lsn, XFS_LOG_SYNC, NULL);
+}
+
 STATIC int
 xfs_file_fsync(
 	struct file		*file,
@@ -1140,7 +1169,7 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_dir_file_operations = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl	= xfs_file_compat_ioctl,
 #endif
-	.fsync		= xfs_file_fsync,
+	.fsync		= xfs_dir_fsync,
 };
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct xfs_file_vm_ops = {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
index bb5e660e0fa..b78f2c65438 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_vm_bmap);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_file_ioctl);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_file_compat_ioctl);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_ioctl_setattr);
+DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_dir_fsync);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_file_fsync);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_destroy_inode);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_write_inode);