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Subject: readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug
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readahead-fix-pipeline-break-caused-by-block-plug.patch
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From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Subject: readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug
Herbert Poetzl reported a performance regression since 2.6.39. The test
is a simple dd read, but with big block size. The reason is:
T1: ra (A, A+128k), (A+128k, A+256k)
T2: lock_page for page A, submit the 256k
T3: hit page A+128K, ra (A+256k, A+384). the range isn't submitted
because of plug and there isn't any lock_page till we hit page A+256k
because all pages from A to A+256k is in memory
T4: hit page A+256k, ra (A+384, A+ 512). Because of plug, the range isn't
submitted again.
T5: lock_page A+256k, so (A+256k, A+512k) will be submitted. The task is
waitting for (A+256k, A+512k) finish.
There is no request to disk in T3 and T4, so readahead pipeline breaks.
We really don't need block plug for generic_file_aio_read() for buffered
I/O. The readahead already has plug and has fine grained control when I/O
should be submitted. Deleting plug for buffered I/O fixes the regression.
One side effect is plug makes the request size 256k, the size is 128k
without it. This is because default ra size is 128k and not a reason we
need plug here.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/filemap.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/filemap.c~readahead-fix-pipeline-break-caused-by-block-plug
mm/filemap.c
--- a/mm/filemap.c~readahead-fix-pipeline-break-caused-by-block-plug
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1400,15 +1400,12 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
unsigned long seg = 0;
size_t count;
loff_t *ppos = &iocb->ki_pos;
- struct blk_plug plug;
count = 0;
retval = generic_segment_checks(iov, &nr_segs, &count, VERIFY_WRITE);
if (retval)
return retval;
- blk_start_plug(&plug);
-
/* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */
if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
loff_t size;
@@ -1424,8 +1421,12 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos,
pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1);
if (!retval) {
+ struct blk_plug plug;
+
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(READ, iocb,
iov, pos, nr_segs);
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
}
if (retval > 0) {
*ppos = pos + retval;
@@ -1481,7 +1482,6 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
break;
}
out:
- blk_finish_plug(&plug);
return retval;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);
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Subject: Subject: readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
readahead-fix-pipeline-break-caused-by-block-plug.patch
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