tree 7a95c3e6090f209aecd0a1d5532ec577862248ca
parent 20cb52ebd1b5ca6fa8a5d9b6b1392292f5ca8a45
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> 1277343565 +1000
committer Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> 1280168201 -0500

xfs: avoid synchronous transaction in xfs_fs_write_inode

We already rely on the fact that the sync code will cause a synchronous
log force later on (currently via xfs_fs_sync_fs -> xfs_quiesce_data ->
xfs_sync_data), so no need to do this here.  This allows us to avoid
a lot of synchronous log forces during sync, which pays of especially
with delayed logging enabled.   Some compilebench numbers that show
this:

xfs (delayed logging, 256k logbufs)
===================================

intial create		  25.94 MB/s	  25.75 MB/s	  25.64 MB/s
create			   8.54 MB/s	   9.12 MB/s	   9.15 MB/s
patch			   2.47 MB/s	   2.47 MB/s	   3.17 MB/s
compile			  29.65 MB/s	  30.51 MB/s	  27.33 MB/s
clean			  90.92 MB/s	  98.83 MB/s	 128.87 MB/s
read tree		  11.90 MB/s	  11.84 MB/s	   8.56 MB/s
read compiled		  28.75 MB/s	  29.96 MB/s	  24.25 MB/s
delete tree		8.39 seconds	8.12 seconds	8.46 seconds
delete compiled		8.35 seconds	8.44 seconds	5.11 seconds
stat tree		6.03 seconds	5.59 seconds	5.19 seconds
stat compiled tree	9.00 seconds	9.52 seconds	8.49 seconds

xfs + write_inode log_force removal
===================================
intial create		  25.87 MB/s	  25.76 MB/s	  25.87 MB/s
create			  15.18 MB/s	  14.80 MB/s	  14.94 MB/s
patch			   3.13 MB/s	   3.14 MB/s	   3.11 MB/s
compile			  36.74 MB/s	  37.17 MB/s	  36.84 MB/s
clean			 226.02 MB/s	 222.58 MB/s	 217.94 MB/s
read tree		  15.14 MB/s	  15.02 MB/s	  15.14 MB/s
read compiled tree	  29.30 MB/s	  29.31 MB/s	  29.32 MB/s
delete tree		6.22 seconds	6.14 seconds	6.15 seconds
delete compiled tree	5.75 seconds	5.92 seconds	5.81 seconds
stat tree		4.60 seconds	4.51 seconds	4.56 seconds
stat compiled tree	4.07 seconds	3.87 seconds	3.96 seconds

In addition to that also remove the delwri inode flush that is unessecary
now that bulkstat is always coherent.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>