| Message ID | 20171115231028.474-1-bo.li.liu@oracle.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | New, archived |
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:10:28PM -0700, Liu Bo wrote: > Setting plug can merge adjacent IOs before dispatching IOs to the disk > driver. > > Without plug, it'd not be a problem for single disk usecases, but for > multiple disks using raid profile, a large IO can be split to several > IOs of stripe length, and plug can be helpful to bring them together > for each disk so that we can save several disk access. > > Moreover, fsync issues synchronous writes, so plug can really take > effect. > > Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index e43da6c..504e96d 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -2018,10 +2018,20 @@ int btrfs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) static int start_ordered_ops(struct inode *inode, loff_t start, loff_t end) { int ret; + struct blk_plug plug; + /* + * This is only called in fsync, which would do synchronous + * writes, so a plug can merge adjacent IOs as much as + * possible. Esp. in case of multiple disks using raid + * profile, a large IO can be split to several segments of + * stripe length(64K). + */ + blk_start_plug(&plug); atomic_inc(&BTRFS_I(inode)->sync_writers); ret = btrfs_fdatawrite_range(inode, start, end); atomic_dec(&BTRFS_I(inode)->sync_writers); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); return ret; }
Setting plug can merge adjacent IOs before dispatching IOs to the disk driver. Without plug, it'd not be a problem for single disk usecases, but for multiple disks using raid profile, a large IO can be split to several IOs of stripe length, and plug can be helpful to bring them together for each disk so that we can save several disk access. Moreover, fsync issues synchronous writes, so plug can really take effect. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> --- v2: Explain why setting plug makes sense. fs/btrfs/file.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)