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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2010-08-24 11:44:34 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> | 2010-08-24 11:44:34 +1000 |
| commit | 546a1924224078c6f582e68f890b05b387b42653 (patch) | |
| tree | f863df4fd74f85c8177d9eb1467a351cd6d0acfc /mm | |
| parent | 4536f2ad8b330453d7ebec0746c4374eadd649b1 (diff) | |
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writeback: write_cache_pages doesn't terminate at nr_to_write <= 0
I noticed XFS writeback in 2.6.36-rc1 was much slower than it should have
been. Enabling writeback tracing showed:
flush-253:16-8516 [007] 1342952.351608: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=1024 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0
flush-253:16-8516 [007] 1342952.351654: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=1023 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0
flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369520: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=0 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0
flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369542: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=-1 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0
flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369549: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=-2 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0
Writeback is not terminating in background writeback if ->writepage is
returning with wbc->nr_to_write == 0, resulting in sub-optimal single page
writeback on XFS.
Fix the write_cache_pages loop to terminate correctly when this situation
occurs and so prevent this sub-optimal background writeback pattern. This
improves sustained sequential buffered write performance from around
250MB/s to 750MB/s for a 100GB file on an XFS filesystem on my 8p test VM.
Cc:<stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index c09ef5219cbe..a803f5e33471 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -985,22 +985,16 @@ continue_unlock: } } - if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) { - if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 && - wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { - /* - * We stop writing back only if we are - * not doing integrity sync. In case of - * integrity sync we have to keep going - * because someone may be concurrently - * dirtying pages, and we might have - * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty - * pages, but have not synced all of the - * old dirty pages. - */ - done = 1; - break; - } + /* + * We stop writing back only if we are not doing + * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to + * keep going until we have written all the pages + * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop. + */ + if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 && + wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { + done = 1; + break; } } pagevec_release(&pvec); |