From f420d4dc4272fd223986762df2ad06056ddebada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:07:24 -0800 Subject: jbd: improve fsync batching There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching. If we fsync() a file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join into the transaction before forcing the commit. The problem with this is that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed the transaction and kept going. Ric Wheeler noticed this when using fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added more threads. This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time we started the transaction. If we run an fsync() and we have been running for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk. We acheive sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout. This means that the wait time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having this static timeout. I weighted the average according to somebody's comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the average. I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested by Andrew. I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a ramdisk to represent a super fast array. I tested with a SATA drive with barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the ramdisk. I ran the following command fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. I mkfs'ed the fs each time. Here are my results type threads with patch without patch sata 2 24.6 26.3 sata 4 49.2 48.1 sata 8 70.1 67.0 sata 16 104.0 94.1 sata 32 153.6 142.7 xserve 2 246.4 222.0 xserve 4 480.0 440.8 xserve 8 829.5 730.8 xserve 16 1172.7 1026.9 xserve 32 1816.3 1650.5 ramdisk 2 2538.3 1745.6 ramdisk 4 2942.3 661.9 ramdisk 8 2882.5 999.8 ramdisk 16 2738.7 1801.9 ramdisk 32 2541.9 2394.0 Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ric Wheeler Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/jbd.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h index 346e2b80be7..6384b19efe6 100644 --- a/include/linux/jbd.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd.h @@ -542,6 +542,11 @@ struct transaction_s */ unsigned long t_expires; + /* + * When this transaction started, in nanoseconds [no locking] + */ + ktime_t t_start_time; + /* * How many handles used this transaction? [t_handle_lock] */ @@ -798,8 +803,18 @@ struct journal_s struct buffer_head **j_wbuf; int j_wbufsize; + /* + * this is the pid of the last person to run a synchronous operation + * through the journal. + */ pid_t j_last_sync_writer; + /* + * the average amount of time in nanoseconds it takes to commit a + * transaction to the disk. [j_state_lock] + */ + u64 j_average_commit_time; + /* * An opaque pointer to fs-private information. ext3 puts its * superblock pointer here -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258