Re: high resolution timers, scheduling & sleep granularity

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Aug 01, 2008  09:25 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> +	if (unlikely(!journal->j_average_commit_time))
> +		journal->j_average_commit_time = commit_time;
> +	else
> +		journal->j_average_commit_time = (commit_time +
> +					journal->j_average_commit_time) / 2;

You may also consider making this a decaying average, so that minor changes
in the workload are smoothed out.  Also, it is probably easier to read
likely(foo) instead of unlikely(!foo)...

	if (likely(journal->j_average_commit_time != 0))
		journal->j_average_commit_time =
			(commit_time * 3 + journal->j_average_commit_time) / 4;
	else
		journal->j_average_commit_time = commit_time;

> +	if (journal->print_count < 100) {
> +		journal->print_count++;
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "avg commit time = %lu\n",
> +		       journal->j_average_commit_time);
> +	}

There is already the jbd stats patch in jbd2 that is reporting this
information for the previous transactions.

>  
> +		spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +		commit_time = journal->j_average_commit_time;
> +		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> +
> +		sleep_time = elapsed_jiffies(transaction->t_start_time, jiffies);
> +		if (!sleep_time)
> +			sleep_time = 1;
> +		sleep_time = (commit_time / sleep_time) * commit_time;

I was also going to comment on the use of jiffies here, but Ric beat me
to it.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.