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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: lower metadata writeback threshold on low dirty threshold
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:43:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120503034311.GA14081@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413014026.GA9027@localhost>

This helps write performance when setting the dirty threshold to tiny numbers.

     3.4.0-rc2         3.4.0-rc2-btrfs4+
  ------------  ------------------------
         96.92        -0.4%        96.54  bay/thresh=1000M/btrfs-100dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
         98.47        +0.0%        98.50  bay/thresh=1000M/btrfs-10dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
         99.38        -0.3%        99.06  bay/thresh=1000M/btrfs-1dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
         98.04        -0.0%        98.02  bay/thresh=100M/btrfs-100dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
         98.68        +0.3%        98.98  bay/thresh=100M/btrfs-10dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
         99.34        -0.0%        99.31  bay/thresh=100M/btrfs-1dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
  ==>    88.98        +9.6%        97.53  bay/thresh=10M/btrfs-10dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
  ==>    86.99       +13.1%        98.39  bay/thresh=10M/btrfs-1dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
  ==>     2.75     +2442.4%        69.88  bay/thresh=1M/btrfs-10dd-1-3.4.0-rc2
  ==>     3.31     +2634.1%        90.54  bay/thresh=1M/btrfs-1dd-1-3.4.0-rc2

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-next.orig/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c	2012-05-02 14:04:00.989262395 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c	2012-05-02 14:04:01.773262414 +0800
@@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ static int btree_writepages(struct addre
 
 		/* this is a bit racy, but that's ok */
 		num_dirty = root->fs_info->dirty_metadata_bytes;
-		if (num_dirty < thresh)
+		if (num_dirty < min(thresh,
+				    global_dirty_limit << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT-2)))
 			return 0;
 	}
 	return btree_write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc);

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-08  1:06 [RESEND][PATCH v2] block: remove plugging at buffered write time Wu Fengguang
2012-04-09 14:34 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-11 23:13   ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-12  1:32     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-04-12  2:20       ` Fengguang Wu
2012-04-12 14:26         ` Jan Kara
2012-04-13  1:40           ` Fengguang Wu
2012-05-03  3:43             ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2012-05-03  3:53               ` [PATCH] writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit Fengguang Wu
2012-05-03  9:25               ` [PATCH] btrfs: lower metadata writeback threshold on low dirty threshold Jan Kara
2012-05-03 10:02                 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-05-03 12:31                 ` Chris Mason
2012-05-03 13:30                 ` Josef Bacik
2012-05-03 14:08               ` Fengguang Wu
2012-05-06  6:01           ` [RESEND][PATCH v2] block: remove plugging at buffered write time Fengguang Wu
2012-05-06  9:58       ` Fengguang Wu

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