From e04cc15f52eb072937cec2bbd8499f37afe5e1ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisashi Hifumi Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:47:45 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: fdatasync should skip unimportant metadata writeout In ocfs2, fdatasync and fsync are identical. I think 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. #sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=300000 --test=fileio --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: 107.1445s total number of events: 119559 total time taken by event execution: 116.1050 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0010s max: 0.1220s approx. 95 percentile: 0.0016s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 7472.4375/303.60 execution time (avg/stddev): 7.2566/0.64 -2.6.30-rc8-patched Test execution summary: total time: 86.8529s total number of events: 300016 total time taken by event execution: 24.3077 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0001s max: 0.0336s approx. 95 percentile: 0.0001s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 18751.0000/718.75 execution time (avg/stddev): 1.5192/0.05 Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi Acked-by: Mark Fasheh Signed-off-by: Joel Becker --- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c index 1a96cac31791..07267e0da909 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c @@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ static int ocfs2_sync_file(struct file *file, if (err) goto bail; + if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) + goto bail; + journal = osb->journal->j_journal; err = jbd2_journal_force_commit(journal); -- 2.30.2