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mm/filemap.c: avoid always dirtying mapping->flags on O_DIRECT 

In some testing I ran today (some fio jobs that spread over two nodes),
we end up spending 40% of the time in filemap_check_errors().  That
smells fishy.  Looking further, this is basically what happens:

blkdev_aio_read()
    generic_file_aio_read()
        filemap_write_and_wait_range()
            if (!mapping->nr_pages)
                filemap_check_errors()

and filemap_check_errors() always attempts two test_and_clear_bit() on
the mapping flags, thus dirtying it for every single invocation.  The
patch below tests each of these bits before clearing them, avoiding this
issue.  In my test case (4-socket box), performance went from 1.7M IOPS
to 4.0M IOPS.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Jens Axboe 2014-05-22 11:54:16 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b985194c8c
commit 7fcbbaf183
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -257,9 +257,11 @@ static int filemap_check_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
{
int ret = 0;
/* Check for outstanding write errors */
if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags))
if (test_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags) &&
test_and_clear_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags))
ret = -ENOSPC;
if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags))
if (test_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags) &&
test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags))
ret = -EIO;
return ret;
}