From 8ab22b9abb5c55413802e4adc9aa6223324547c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisashi Hifumi Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:46:36 -0700 Subject: vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO is issued and this page will be uptodate. I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment. Because in this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate. So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate. This can reduce read IO and improve system throughput. I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program. This benchmark do: 1: mount and open a test file. 2: create a 512MB file. 3: close a file and umount. 4: mount and again open a test file. 5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file. offset is aligned by IO size(1024bytes). 6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file. The result was: 2.6.26 330 sec 2.6.26-patched 226 sec Arch:i386 Filesystem:ext3 Blocksize:1024 bytes Memory: 1GB On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block. So random read/write mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment. This test result showed this. The benchmark program is as follows: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define LEN 1024 #define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */ main(void) { unsigned long i, offset, filesize; int fd; char buf[LEN]; time_t t1, t2; if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } memset(buf, 0, LEN); fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++) write(fd, buf, LEN); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) { perror("cannot mount\n"); exit(1); } fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { perror("cannot open file\n"); exit(1); } filesize = LEN * LOOP; for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } printf("start test\n"); time(&t1); for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){ offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1)); pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset); } time(&t2); printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1); close(fd); if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) { perror("cannot umount\n"); exit(1); } } Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/filemap.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/filemap.c') diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 5de7633e1db..42bbc6909ba 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1023,8 +1023,17 @@ find_page: ra, filp, page, index, last_index - index); } - if (!PageUptodate(page)) - goto page_not_up_to_date; + if (!PageUptodate(page)) { + if (inode->i_blkbits == PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT || + !mapping->a_ops->is_partially_uptodate) + goto page_not_up_to_date; + if (TestSetPageLocked(page)) + goto page_not_up_to_date; + if (!mapping->a_ops->is_partially_uptodate(page, + desc, offset)) + goto page_not_up_to_date_locked; + unlock_page(page); + } page_ok: /* * i_size must be checked after we know the page is Uptodate. @@ -1094,6 +1103,7 @@ page_not_up_to_date: if (lock_page_killable(page)) goto readpage_eio; +page_not_up_to_date_locked: /* Did it get truncated before we got the lock? */ if (!page->mapping) { unlock_page(page); -- cgit v1.2.2