Btrfs: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout
authorHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:13:17 +0000 (11:13 -0400)
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:29:53 +0000 (11:29 -0400)
commit524724ed1f224875a117be593540591ed050c73d
tree80f02291dc9f991dfd788d9ec6f4c8ee155997c7
parent163e783e6a8b1e8bcb4c9084d438091386b589df
Btrfs: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout

In btrfs, fdatasync and fsync are identical, but
fdatasync should skip committing transaction when
inode->i_state is set just I_DIRTY_SYNC and this indicates
only atime or/and mtime updates.
Following patch improves fdatasync throughput.

--file-block-size=4K --file-total-size=16G --file-test-mode=rndwr
--file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run

Results:
-2.6.30-rc8
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          1980.6540s
    total number of events:              10001
    total time taken by event execution: 1192.9804
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.1193s
         max:                            15.3720s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.7257s

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           625.0625/151.32
    execution time (avg/stddev):   74.5613/9.46

-2.6.30-rc8-patched
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          1695.9118s
    total number of events:              10000
    total time taken by event execution: 871.3214
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.0871s
         max:                            10.4644s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.4787s

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           625.0000/131.86
    execution time (avg/stddev):   54.4576/8.98

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
fs/btrfs/file.c