GFS2: deallocation performance patch
This patch is a performance improvement to GFS2's dealloc code.
Rather than update the quota file and statfs file for every
single block that's stripped off in unlink function do_strip,
this patch keeps track and updates them once for every layer
that's stripped. This is done entirely inside the existing
transaction, so there should be no risk of corruption.
The other functions that deallocate blocks will be unaffected
because they are using wrapper functions that do the same
thing that they do today.
I tested this code on my roth cluster by creating 200
files in a directory, each of which is 100MB, then on
four nodes, I simultaneously deleted the files, thus competing
for GFS2 resources (but different files). The commands
I used were:
[root@roth-01]# time for i in `seq 1 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
[root@roth-02]# time for i in `seq 2 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
[root@roth-03]# time for i in `seq 3 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
[root@roth-05]# time for i in `seq 4 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done
The performance increase was significant:
roth-01 roth-02 roth-03 roth-05
--------- --------- --------- ---------
old: real 0m34.027 0m25.021s 0m23.906s 0m35.646s
new: real 0m22.379s 0m24.362s 0m24.133s 0m18.562s
Total time spent deleting:
old: 118.6s
new: 89.4
For this particular case, this showed a 25% performance increase for
GFS2 unlinks.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
index 50c2bb0..a80e303 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@
extern int gfs2_alloc_block(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 *bn, unsigned int *n);
extern int gfs2_alloc_di(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 *bn, u64 *generation);
+extern void __gfs2_free_data(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen);
extern void gfs2_free_data(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen);
+extern void __gfs2_free_meta(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen);
extern void gfs2_free_meta(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen);
extern void gfs2_free_di(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd, struct gfs2_inode *ip);
extern void gfs2_unlink_di(struct inode *inode);