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From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: optimize orphan_list handling for ext4_setattr
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:06:42 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5fevji5.fsf@dmon-lap.sw.ru> (raw)

Surprisingly chown() on ext4 is not SMP scalable operation. 
Due to unconditional orphan_del(NULL, inode) in ext4_setattr()
result in significant performance overhead because of global orphan
mutex, especially in no-journal mode (where orphan_add() is noop).
It is possible to skip explicit orphan_del if possible.
Results of fchown() micro-benchmark in no-journal mode
while (1) {
   iteration++;
   fchown(fd, uid, gid);
   fchown(fd, uid + 1, gid + 1)
}
measured: iterations per millisecond
| nr_tasks | w/o patch | with patch |
|        1 |       142 |        185 |
|        4 |       109 |        642 |

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 18eed80..a16097b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5540,6 +5540,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	int error, rc = 0;
+	int orphan = 0;
 	const unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
 
 	error = inode_change_ok(inode, attr);
@@ -5595,8 +5596,10 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 			error = PTR_ERR(handle);
 			goto err_out;
 		}
-
-		error = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
+		if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) {
+			error = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
+			orphan = 1;
+		}
 		EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = attr->ia_size;
 		rc = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 		if (!error)
@@ -5608,6 +5611,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 							    attr->ia_size);
 			if (error) {
 				/* Do as much error cleanup as possible */
+				orphan = 0;
 				handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 3);
 				if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 					ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
@@ -5636,7 +5640,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	 * If the call to ext4_truncate failed to get a transaction handle at
 	 * all, we need to clean up the in-core orphan list manually.
 	 */
-	if (inode->i_nlink)
+	if (orphan && inode->i_nlink)
 		ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
 
 	if (!rc && (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
-- 
1.6.6.1


             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25  7:06 Dmitry Monakhov [this message]
2010-11-03  9:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: optimize orphan_list handling for ext4_setattr Andreas Dilger
2010-11-03  9:31   ` Dmitry
2010-11-03 17:35     ` Andreas Dilger

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