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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-04-15 17:05:48 -0600
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-24 15:45:28 -0400
commitfe0f07d08ee35fb13d2cb048970072fe4f71ad14 (patch)
treebeb614e8860cfa1791143d01ba17f686304c5caf /fs/block_dev.c
parent8e3c500594dca9a12c27eb6d77b82e0766879bfd (diff)
downloadlinux-fe0f07d08ee35fb13d2cb048970072fe4f71ad14.tar.bz2
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode ->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection. For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with better latencies too. Before: clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 33], 5.00th=[ 34], 10.00th=[ 34], 20.00th=[ 34], | 30.00th=[ 34], 40.00th=[ 34], 50.00th=[ 35], 60.00th=[ 35], | 70.00th=[ 35], 80.00th=[ 35], 90.00th=[ 37], 95.00th=[ 80], | 99.00th=[ 98], 99.50th=[ 151], 99.90th=[ 155], 99.95th=[ 155], | 99.99th=[ 165] After: clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 95], 5.00th=[ 108], 10.00th=[ 129], 20.00th=[ 149], | 30.00th=[ 155], 40.00th=[ 161], 50.00th=[ 167], 60.00th=[ 171], | 70.00th=[ 177], 80.00th=[ 185], 90.00th=[ 201], 95.00th=[ 270], | 99.00th=[ 390], 99.50th=[ 398], 99.90th=[ 418], 99.95th=[ 422], | 99.99th=[ 438] In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance improvements: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557 The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets. Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <elliott@hp.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 79b4fa3b391d..c7e4163ede87 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, loff_t offset)
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
return __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, I_BDEV(inode), iter, offset,
- blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL, 0);
+ blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL,
+ DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
}
int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait)