ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal. Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs. We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal. It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.
We did
iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2
which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache. Results:
ext2 ext4, default ext4, no journal
initial writes 13.0 MB/s 15.4 MB/s 15.7 MB/s
rewrites 13.1 MB/s 15.6 MB/s 15.9 MB/s
reads 15.2 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
re-reads 15.3 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s
random readers 5.6 MB/s 5.6 MB/s 5.7 MB/s
random writers 5.1 MB/s 5.3 MB/s 5.4 MB/s
So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 9b4a368..157ce65 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
if (ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh) == 0) {
EXT4_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR);
sb->s_dirt = 1;
- ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
+ ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
}
}
@@ -487,9 +487,9 @@
ext4_forget(handle, 1, inode, bh, bh->b_blocknr);
} else {
le32_add_cpu(&BHDR(bh)->h_refcount, -1);
- error = ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
+ error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
if (IS_SYNC(inode))
- handle->h_sync = 1;
+ ext4_handle_sync(handle);
DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK(inode, 1);
ea_bdebug(bh, "refcount now=%d; releasing",
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount));
@@ -724,8 +724,9 @@
if (error == -EIO)
goto bad_block;
if (!error)
- error = ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle,
- bs->bh);
+ error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
+ inode,
+ bs->bh);
if (error)
goto cleanup;
goto inserted;
@@ -794,8 +795,9 @@
ea_bdebug(new_bh, "reusing; refcount now=%d",
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(new_bh)->h_refcount));
unlock_buffer(new_bh);
- error = ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle,
- new_bh);
+ error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
+ inode,
+ new_bh);
if (error)
goto cleanup_dquot;
}
@@ -833,7 +835,8 @@
set_buffer_uptodate(new_bh);
unlock_buffer(new_bh);
ext4_xattr_cache_insert(new_bh);
- error = ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, new_bh);
+ error = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
+ inode, new_bh);
if (error)
goto cleanup;
}
@@ -1040,7 +1043,7 @@
*/
is.iloc.bh = NULL;
if (IS_SYNC(inode))
- handle->h_sync = 1;
+ ext4_handle_sync(handle);
}
cleanup: