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 --- include/linux/fs.h | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 8252b045e624..580b513668fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -443,6 +443,27 @@ static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i) return i->count; } +/* + * "descriptor" for what we're up to with a read. + * This allows us to use the same read code yet + * have multiple different users of the data that + * we read from a file. + * + * The simplest case just copies the data to user + * mode. + */ +typedef struct { + size_t written; + size_t count; + union { + char __user *buf; + void *data; + } arg; + int error; +} read_descriptor_t; + +typedef int (*read_actor_t)(read_descriptor_t *, struct page *, + unsigned long, unsigned long); struct address_space_operations { int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc); @@ -484,6 +505,8 @@ struct address_space_operations { int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); + int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, + unsigned long); }; /* @@ -1198,27 +1221,6 @@ struct block_device_operations { struct module *owner; }; -/* - * "descriptor" for what we're up to with a read. - * This allows us to use the same read code yet - * have multiple different users of the data that - * we read from a file. - * - * The simplest case just copies the data to user - * mode. - */ -typedef struct { - size_t written; - size_t count; - union { - char __user * buf; - void *data; - } arg; - int error; -} read_descriptor_t; - -typedef int (*read_actor_t)(read_descriptor_t *, struct page *, unsigned long, unsigned long); - /* These macros are for out of kernel modules to test that * the kernel supports the unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl * fields in struct file_operations. */ -- cgit v1.2.2