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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yawei.niu@intel.com, andreas.dilger@intel.com, jack@suse.cz,
	lai.siyao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: remove dqptr_sem for scalability
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:02:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537F46ED.3050505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537EDB05.8030109@gmail.com>

On 5/23/14, 12:22 AM, Niu Yawei wrote:
> 于 2014/5/23 12:02, Eric Sandeen 写道:
>> On 5/22/14, 5:47 AM, Niu Yawei wrote:
>>> There are several global locks in the VFS quota code which hurts
>>> performance a lot when quota accounting enabled, dqptr_sem is the major one.
>>>
>>> This patch tries to make the VFS quota code scalable with minimal changes.
>>>
>>> Following tests (mdtest & dbench) were running over ext4 fs in a
>>> centos6.5 vm (8 cpus, 4G mem, kenrel: 3.15.0-rc5+), and the result shows
>>> the patch relieved the lock congestion a lot.
>>>
>> Just noticed this patch - FWIW, Lustre has a 
>> "quota-replace-dqptr-sem-sles11sp2.patch" that they apply:
> Yes, I'm Lustre developer and trying to push the patch upstream. :)

I'm sorry.  I took a quick glance at both and somehow didn't realize they
were the same.  That's what I get for sending emails too late at night.

Sorry for the noise!  Carry on... ;)  And thanks for doing this!

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-23 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22 10:47 [PATCH] quota: remove dqptr_sem for scalability Niu Yawei
2014-05-22 13:25 ` Jan Kara
2014-05-23  3:37   ` Niu Yawei
2014-05-27 10:13   ` [PATCH 2/3] quota: avoid unnecessary dqget()/dqput() calls Niu Yawei
2014-05-27 10:15   ` [PATCH 3/3] quota: remove dqptr_sem Niu Yawei
2014-05-23  4:02 ` [PATCH] quota: remove dqptr_sem for scalability Eric Sandeen
2014-05-23  5:22   ` Niu Yawei
2014-05-23 13:02     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-05-27 10:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] quota: protect Q_GETFMT by dqonoff_mutex Niu Yawei
2014-05-27 10:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-27 10:28     ` Niu Yawei
2014-05-28  1:52     ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Niu Yawei
2014-06-02  7:32       ` Jan Kara
2014-05-28  1:53     ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] quota: avoid unnecessary dqget()/dqput() calls Niu Yawei
2014-06-02  7:42       ` Jan Kara
2014-05-28  1:55     ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] quota: remove dqptr_sem Niu Yawei
2014-05-28  2:01       ` Niu Yawei
2014-06-02  8:34       ` Jan Kara
2014-06-03  9:51         ` Niu Yawei
2014-06-03 15:43           ` Jan Kara
2014-06-04  4:19             ` [PATCH 1/5] quota: protect Q_GETFMT by dqonoff_mutex Niu Yawei
2014-06-04 15:36               ` Jan Kara
2014-06-04  4:20             ` [PATCH 2/5] quota: avoid unnecessary dqget()/dqput() calls Niu Yawei
2014-06-04  4:21             ` [PATCH 3/5] quota: simplify remove_inode_dquot_ref() Niu Yawei
2014-06-04  4:22             ` [PATCH 4/5] quota: missing lock in dqcache_shrink_scan() Niu Yawei
2014-06-04  4:23             ` [PATCH 5/5] quota: remove dqptr_sem Niu Yawei

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