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Btrfs: implement unlocked dio write
authorMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 07:04:11 +0000 (07:04 +0000)
committerJosef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:59:48 +0000 (12:59 -0500)
commit1f3fd0eafc27e250e25120261837ff6897df0328
tree4efe5e9ff5c776b73ec149ce29dd8e67bc4394cc
parent34d2eec1f6c7ed9965e935b9a6aeff4f2161da1b
Btrfs: implement unlocked dio write

This idea is from ext4. By this patch, we can make the dio write parallel,
and improve the performance. But because we can not update isize without
i_mutex, the unlocked dio write just can be done in front of the EOF.

We needn't worry about the race between dio write and truncate, because the
truncate need wait untill all the dio write end.

And we also needn't worry about the race between dio write and punch hole,
because we have extent lock to protect our operation.

I ran fio to test the performance of this feature.

== Hardware ==
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E7500  @ 2.93GHz
Mem: 2GB
SSD: Intel X25-M 120GB (Test Partition: 60GB)

== config file ==
[global]
ioengine=psync
direct=1
bs=4k
size=32G
runtime=60
directory=/mnt/btrfs/
filename=testfile
group_reporting
thread

[file1]
numjobs=1 # 2 4
rw=randwrite

== result (KBps) ==
write 1 2 4
lock 24936 24738 24726
nolock 24962 30866 32101

== result (iops) ==
write 1 2 4
lock 6234 6184 6181
nolock 6240 7716 8025

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
fs/btrfs/inode.c