A mirror of the official Linux kernel repository just in case
Go to file
Coly Li 91be66e131 bcache: performance improvement for btree_flush_write()
This patch improves performance for btree_flush_write() in following
ways,
- Use another spinlock journal.flush_write_lock to replace the very
  hot journal.lock. We don't have to use journal.lock here, selecting
  candidate btree nodes takes a lot of time, hold journal.lock here will
  block other jouranling threads and drop the overall I/O performance.
- Only select flushing btree node from c->btree_cache list. When the
  machine has a large system memory, mca cache may have a huge number of
  cached btree nodes. Iterating all the cached nodes will take a lot
  of CPU time, and most of the nodes on c->btree_cache_freeable and
  c->btree_cache_freed lists are cleared and have need to flush. So only
  travel mca list c->btree_cache to select flushing btree node should be
  enough for most of the cases.
- Don't iterate whole c->btree_cache list, only reversely select first
  BTREE_FLUSH_NR btree nodes to flush. Iterate all btree nodes from
  c->btree_cache and select the oldest journal pin btree nodes consumes
  huge number of CPU cycles if the list is huge (push and pop a node
  into/out of a heap is expensive). The last several dirty btree nodes
  on the tail of c->btree_cache list are earlest allocated and cached
  btree nodes, they are relative to the oldest journal pin btree nodes.
  Therefore only flushing BTREE_FLUSH_NR btree nodes from tail of
  c->btree_cache probably includes the oldest journal pin btree nodes.

In my testing, the above change decreases 50%+ CPU consumption when
journal space is full. Some times IOPS drops to 0 for 5-8 seconds,
comparing blocking I/O for 120+ seconds in previous code, this is much
better. Maybe there is room to improve in future, but at this momment
the fix looks fine and performs well in my testing.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-06-28 07:39:18 -06:00
arch arm64 fixes for -rc5 2019-06-14 06:16:47 -10:00
block block: Remove unused code 2019-06-27 07:34:25 -06:00
certs treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
crypto SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: nvme: add an example for nvme fault injection 2019-06-21 11:15:50 +02:00
drivers bcache: performance improvement for btree_flush_write() 2019-06-28 07:39:18 -06:00
fs blkcg, writeback: dead memcgs shouldn't contribute to writeback ownership arbitration 2019-06-15 10:39:42 -06:00
include block: Remove unused code 2019-06-27 07:34:25 -06:00
init block: rename CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP to CONFIG_BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG 2019-06-20 10:32:35 -06:00
ipc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
kernel cgroup: export css_next_descendant_pre for bfq 2019-06-21 02:48:34 -06:00
lib lib/genalloc: introduce chunk owners 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/devm_memremap_pages: fix final page put race 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
net SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
samples SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: prefix addr2line with $CROSS_COMPILE 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
security Smack: Restore the smackfsdef mount option and add missing prefixes 2019-06-14 14:25:04 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc5 2019-06-14 05:37:06 -10:00
tools mm/devm_memremap_pages: fix final page put race 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 333 2019-06-05 17:37:06 +02:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: exclude .get_maintainer.ignore and .gitattributes 2019-05-18 11:49:54 +09:00
.mailmap A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Farewell Martin Schwidefsky 2019-05-31 10:14:11 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-06-08 12:48:49 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 20:24:46 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.