[f2fs-dev][PATCH] f2fs: reduce competition among node page writes

From: Chao Yu
Date: Thu Jul 03 2014 - 06:59:38 EST


We do not need to block on ->node_write among different node page writers e.g.
fsync/flush, unless we have a node page writer from write_checkpoint.
So it's better use rw_semaphore instead of mutex type for ->node_write to
promote performance.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 6 +++---
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 +-
fs/f2fs/node.c | 4 ++--
fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index 0b4710c..eec406b 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -714,10 +714,10 @@ retry_flush_dents:
* until finishing nat/sit flush.
*/
retry_flush_nodes:
- mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
+ down_write(&sbi->node_write);

if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES)) {
- mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+ up_write(&sbi->node_write);
sync_node_pages(sbi, 0, &wbc);
goto retry_flush_nodes;
}
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ retry_flush_nodes:

static void unblock_operations(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
{
- mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+ up_write(&sbi->node_write);
f2fs_unlock_all(sbi);
}

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index ae3b4ac..ca30b5a 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
struct inode *meta_inode; /* cache meta blocks */
struct mutex cp_mutex; /* checkpoint procedure lock */
struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem; /* blocking FS operations */
- struct mutex node_write; /* locking node writes */
+ struct rw_semaphore node_write; /* locking node writes */
struct mutex writepages; /* mutex for writepages() */
bool por_doing; /* recovery is doing or not */
wait_queue_head_t cp_wait;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index a90f51d..7b5b5de 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -1231,12 +1231,12 @@ static int f2fs_write_node_page(struct page *page,
if (wbc->for_reclaim)
goto redirty_out;

- mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
+ down_read(&sbi->node_write);
set_page_writeback(page);
write_node_page(sbi, page, &fio, nid, ni.blk_addr, &new_addr);
set_node_addr(sbi, &ni, new_addr, is_fsync_dnode(page));
dec_page_count(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES);
- mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+ up_read(&sbi->node_write);
unlock_page(page);
return 0;

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 8f96d93..bed9413 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static int f2fs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
mutex_init(&sbi->gc_mutex);
mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);
mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);
- mutex_init(&sbi->node_write);
+ init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);
sbi->por_doing = false;
spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock);

--
1.7.9.5


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