ext4: Optimize ext4 DIO overwrites
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:44:33 +0000 (18:44 +0100)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:57:18 +0000 (11:57 -0500)
commit8cd115bdda17751ee2adab614a80df72228b3809
treecf216cc2c9faab3d704e65595ce486225cf8edd0
parent4549b49f82ab40c214778f316b6898aa4132723a
ext4: Optimize ext4 DIO overwrites

Currently we start transaction for mapping every extent for writing
using direct IO. This is unnecessary when we know we are overwriting
already allocated blocks and the overhead of starting a transaction can
be significant especially for multithreaded workloads doing small writes.
Use iomap operations that avoid starting a transaction for direct IO
overwrites.

This improves throughput of 4k random writes - fio jobfile:
[global]
rw=randrw
norandommap=1
invalidate=0
bs=4k
numjobs=16
time_based=1
ramp_time=30
runtime=120
group_reporting=1
ioengine=psync
direct=1
size=16G
filename=file1.0.0:file1.0.1:file1.0.2:file1.0.3:file1.0.4:file1.0.5:file1.0.6:file1.0.7:file1.0.8:file1.0.9:file1.0.10:file1.0.11:file1.0.12:file1.0.13:file1.0.14:file1.0.15:file1.0.16:file1.0.17:file1.0.18:file1.0.19:file1.0.20:file1.0.21:file1.0.22:file1.0.23:file1.0.24:file1.0.25:file1.0.26:file1.0.27:file1.0.28:file1.0.29:file1.0.30:file1.0.31
file_service_type=random
nrfiles=32

from 3018MB/s to 4059MB/s in my test VM running test against simulated
pmem device (note that before iomap conversion, this workload was able
to achieve 3708MB/s because old direct IO path avoided transaction start
for overwrites as well). For dax, the win is even larger improving
throughput from 3042MB/s to 4311MB/s.

Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218174433.19380-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/ext4.h
fs/ext4/file.c
fs/ext4/inode.c