From 8ab22b9abb5c55413802e4adc9aa6223324547c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisashi Hifumi Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:46:36 -0700 Subject: vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO is issued and this page will be uptodate. I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment. Because in this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate. So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate. This can reduce read IO and improve system throughput. I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program. This benchmark do: 1: mount and open a test file. 2: create a 512MB file. 3: close a file and umount. 4: mount and again open a test file. 5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file. offset is aligned by IO size(1024bytes). 6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file. The result was: 2.6.26 330 sec 2.6.26-patched 226 sec Arch:i386 Filesystem:ext3 Blocksize:1024 bytes Memory: 1GB On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block. So random read/write mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment. This test result showed this. The benchmark program is as follows: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define LEN 1024 #define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */ main(void) { unsigned long i, offset, filesize; int fd; char buf[LEN]; time_t t1, t2; if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } memset(buf, 0, LEN); fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++) write(fd, buf, LEN); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } filesize = LEN * LOOP; for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } printf("start test\n"); time(&t1); for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } time(&t2); printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } } Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext3/inode.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext3') diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c index 3bf07d70b91..507d8689b11 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -1767,44 +1767,47 @@ static int ext3_journalled_set_page_dirty(struct page *page) } static const struct address_space_operations ext3_ordered_aops = { - .readpage = ext3_readpage, - .readpages = ext3_readpages, - .writepage = ext3_ordered_writepage, - .sync_page = block_sync_page, - .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, - .write_end = ext3_ordered_write_end, - .bmap = ext3_bmap, - .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, - .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, - .direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO, - .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page, + .readpage = ext3_readpage, + .readpages = ext3_readpages, + .writepage = ext3_ordered_writepage, + .sync_page = block_sync_page, + .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, + .write_end = ext3_ordered_write_end, + .bmap = ext3_bmap, + .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, + .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, + .direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO, + .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page, + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate, }; static const struct address_space_operations ext3_writeback_aops = { - .readpage = ext3_readpage, - .readpages = ext3_readpages, - .writepage = ext3_writeback_writepage, - .sync_page = block_sync_page, - .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, - .write_end = ext3_writeback_write_end, - .bmap = ext3_bmap, - .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, - .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, - .direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO, - .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page, + .readpage = ext3_readpage, + .readpages = ext3_readpages, + .writepage = ext3_writeback_writepage, + .sync_page = block_sync_page, + .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, + .write_end = ext3_writeback_write_end, + .bmap = ext3_bmap, + .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, + .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, + .direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO, + .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page, + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate, }; static const struct address_space_operations ext3_journalled_aops = { - .readpage = ext3_readpage, - .readpages = ext3_readpages, - .writepage = ext3_journalled_writepage, - .sync_page = block_sync_page, - .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, - .write_end = ext3_journalled_write_end, - .set_page_dirty = ext3_journalled_set_page_dirty, - .bmap = ext3_bmap, - .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, - .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, + .readpage = ext3_readpage, + .readpages = ext3_readpages, + .writepage = ext3_journalled_writepage, + .sync_page = block_sync_page, + .write_begin = ext3_write_begin, + .write_end = ext3_journalled_write_end, + .set_page_dirty = ext3_journalled_set_page_dirty, + .bmap = ext3_bmap, + .invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage, + .releasepage = ext3_releasepage, + .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate, }; void ext3_set_aops(struct inode *inode) -- cgit v1.2.3