tree 1f5d2129f3db9a9e8c3aa96b0c8120a55aac925c
parent 462d6fac8960a3ba797927adfcbd29d503eb16fd
author Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> 1317059927 -0400
committer Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> 1319051568 -0400

Btrfs: stop using write_one_page

While looking for a performance regression a user was complaining about, I
noticed that we had a regression with the varmail test of filebench.  This was
introduced by

0d10ee2e6deb5c8409ae65b970846344897d5e4e

which keeps us from calling writepages in writepage.  This is a correct change,
however it happens to help the varmail test because we write out in larger
chunks.  This is largly to do with how we write out dirty pages for each
transaction.  If you run filebench with

load varmail
set $dir=/mnt/btrfs-test
run 60

prior to this patch you would get ~1420 ops/second, but with the patch you get
~1200 ops/second.  This is a 16% decrease.  So since we know the range of dirty
pages we want to write out, don't write out in one page chunks, write out in
ranges.  So to do this we call filemap_fdatawrite_range() on the range of bytes.
Then we convert the DIRTY extents to NEED_WAIT extents.  When we then call
btrfs_wait_marked_extents() we only have to filemap_fdatawait_range() on that
range and clear the NEED_WAIT extents.  This doesn't get us back to our original
speeds, but I've been seeing ~1380 ops/second, which is a <5% regression as
opposed to a >15% regression.  That is acceptable given that the original commit
greatly reduces our latency to begin with.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>