From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n9U9943V174319 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:09:04 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0E2A117FD6A0 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QIF23siPteMXJfQb for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1N3nTv-00066O-Ln for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:09:15 +0000 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:09:15 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH] xfs: use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG for synchronous writeout Message-ID: <20091030090915.GA23188@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com The VM and I/O schedulers now expect us to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG for synchronous writeout. Right now I can't see any changes in performance numbers with this, but we're getting some beating for not using it, and the knowledge defintively could help the block code to make better decisions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2009-10-24 10:08:36.622254197 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2009-10-24 10:18:27.803006347 +0200 @@ -412,8 +412,9 @@ xfs_end_bio( STATIC void xfs_submit_ioend_bio( - xfs_ioend_t *ioend, - struct bio *bio) + struct writeback_control *wbc, + xfs_ioend_t *ioend, + struct bio *bio) { atomic_inc(&ioend->io_remaining); bio->bi_private = ioend; @@ -426,7 +427,8 @@ xfs_submit_ioend_bio( if (xfs_ioend_new_eof(ioend)) xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(XFS_I(ioend->io_inode)); - submit_bio(WRITE, bio); + submit_bio(wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? + WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE, bio); ASSERT(!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_EOPNOTSUPP)); bio_put(bio); } @@ -505,6 +507,7 @@ static inline int bio_add_buffer(struct */ STATIC void xfs_submit_ioend( + struct writeback_control *wbc, xfs_ioend_t *ioend) { xfs_ioend_t *head = ioend; @@ -533,19 +536,19 @@ xfs_submit_ioend( retry: bio = xfs_alloc_ioend_bio(bh); } else if (bh->b_blocknr != lastblock + 1) { - xfs_submit_ioend_bio(ioend, bio); + xfs_submit_ioend_bio(wbc, ioend, bio); goto retry; } if (bio_add_buffer(bio, bh) != bh->b_size) { - xfs_submit_ioend_bio(ioend, bio); + xfs_submit_ioend_bio(wbc, ioend, bio); goto retry; } lastblock = bh->b_blocknr; } if (bio) - xfs_submit_ioend_bio(ioend, bio); + xfs_submit_ioend_bio(wbc, ioend, bio); xfs_finish_ioend(ioend, 0); } while ((ioend = next) != NULL); } @@ -1198,7 +1201,7 @@ xfs_page_state_convert( } if (iohead) - xfs_submit_ioend(iohead); + xfs_submit_ioend(wbc, iohead); return page_dirty; _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs