On Thu, Oct 24 2013, Jens Axboe wrote:
> We don't need truncate protection for block devices, so add a flag
> bypassing this cache line dirtying twice for every IO. This easily
> contributes to 5-10% of the CPU time on high IOPS O_DIRECT testing.
There's a merge error in this patch, please find the correct one below.
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 1e86823..e20b7c1 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct
iovec *iov,
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
return __blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, I_BDEV(inode), iov, offset,
- nr_segs, blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL, 0);
+ nr_segs, blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL,
+ DIO_IGNORE_TRUNCATE);
}
int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait)
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 0e04142..acc1471 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -265,7 +265,11 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio *dio, loff_t
offset, ssize_t ret,
if (dio->end_io && dio->result)
dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private);
- inode_dio_done(dio->inode);
+ if (dio->flags & DIO_IGNORE_TRUNCATE)
+ __inode_dio_done(dio->inode);
+ else
+ inode_dio_done(dio->inode);
+
if (is_async) {
if (dio->rw & WRITE) {
int err;
@@ -1223,9 +1227,12 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct
inode *inode,
}
/*
- * Will be decremented at I/O completion time.
+ * Will be decremented at I/O completion time. For a block device
+ * we don't need to protect against truncate, so don't increment
+ * the inode direct IO count.
*/
- atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
+ if (!(dio->flags & DIO_IGNORE_TRUNCATE))
+ atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
retval = 0;
sdio.blkbits = blkbits;
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index b33ba8e..22319db 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1854,6 +1854,11 @@ void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_wait);
+void __inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
+}
+
/*
* inode_dio_done - signal finish of a direct I/O requests
* @inode: inode the direct I/O happens on
@@ -1864,6 +1869,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_wait);
void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&inode->i_dio_count))
- wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
+ __inode_dio_done(inode);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_done);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 3f40547..d90a688 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2468,6 +2468,9 @@ enum {
/* filesystem does not support filling holes */
DIO_SKIP_HOLES = 0x02,
+
+ /* inode/fs/bdev does not need truncate protection */
+ DIO_IGNORE_TRUNCATE = 0x04,
};
void dio_end_io(struct bio *bio, int error);
@@ -2488,6 +2491,7 @@ static inline ssize_t blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct
kiocb *iocb,
#endif
void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode);
+void __inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode);
void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode);
extern const struct file_operations generic_ro_fops;
--
Jens Axboe
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