tree eb6b12341423a3520399d80a167ac82f0183bb50
parent 7534e854b930a021dedf9e16396ced5e70e1aba3
author Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> 1382050576 -0400
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1382050576 -0400

ext4: fix performance regression in ext4_writepages

Commit 4e7ea81db5(ext4: restructure writeback path) introduces another
performance regression on random write:

- one more page may be added to ext4 extent in
  mpage_prepare_extent_to_map, and will be submitted for I/O so
  nr_to_write will become -1 before 'done' is set

- the worse thing is that dirty pages may still be retrieved from page
  cache after nr_to_write becomes negative, so lots of small chunks
  can be submitted to block device when page writeback is catching up
  with write path, and performance is hurted.

On one arm A15 board with sata 3.0 SSD(CPU: 1.5GHz dura core, RAM:
2GB, SATA controller: 3.0Gbps), this patch can improve below test's
result from 157MB/sec to 174MB/sec(>10%):

	dd if=/dev/zero of=./z.img bs=8K count=512K

The above test is actually prototype of block write in bonnie++
utility.

This patch makes sure no more pages than nr_to_write can be added to
extent for mapping, so that nr_to_write won't become negative.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>