Re: [PATCHv3 1/1] ext4: Optimize file overwrites

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Fri 18-09-20 10:36:35, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> In case if the file already has underlying blocks/extents allocated
> then we don't need to start a journal txn and can directly return
> the underlying mapping. Currently ext4_iomap_begin() is used by
> both DAX & DIO path. We can check if the write request is an
> overwrite & then directly return the mapping information.
> 
> This could give a significant perf boost for multi-threaded writes
> specially random overwrites.
> On PPC64 VM with simulated pmem(DAX) device, ~10x perf improvement
> could be seen in random writes (overwrite). Also bcoz this optimizes
> away the spinlock contention during jbd2 slab cache allocation
> (jbd2_journal_handle). On x86 VM, ~2x perf improvement was observed.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>

The patch looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 10dd470876b3..6eae17758ece 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -3437,14 +3437,26 @@ static int ext4_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
>  	map.m_len = min_t(loff_t, (offset + length - 1) >> blkbits,
>  			  EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK) - map.m_lblk + 1;
>  
> -	if (flags & IOMAP_WRITE)
> +	if (flags & IOMAP_WRITE) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We check here if the blocks are already allocated, then we
> +		 * don't need to start a journal txn and we can directly return
> +		 * the mapping information. This could boost performance
> +		 * especially in multi-threaded overwrite requests.
> +		 */
> +		if (offset + length <= i_size_read(inode)) {
> +			ret = ext4_map_blocks(NULL, inode, &map, 0);
> +			if (ret > 0 && (map.m_flags & EXT4_MAP_MAPPED))
> +				goto out;
> +		}
>  		ret = ext4_iomap_alloc(inode, &map, flags);
> -	else
> +	} else {
>  		ret = ext4_map_blocks(NULL, inode, &map, 0);
> +	}
>  
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
> -
> +out:
>  	ext4_set_iomap(inode, iomap, &map, offset, length);
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR