From 4c16c36ad62fff8485215bd803d778eb2bd0b8bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Peterson Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:11:33 -0500 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse --- fs/gfs2/rgrp.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/gfs2/rgrp.h') diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h index 50c2bb04369c..a80e3034ac47 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h @@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ extern int gfs2_ri_update(struct gfs2_inode *ip); 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); -- cgit v1.2.1