From e07f7183a486cf9783d1f8c9d2997b5b39eeb2d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:14:26 -0500 Subject: jbd2: improve jbd2 fsync batching This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self optimizing approach where we measure the average amount of time it takes to commit a transaction to disk and the ammount of time a transaction has been running. If somebody does a sync write or an fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1 jiffies, which depending on the value of HZ could be a significant amount of time compared to how long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying storage. With this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if the amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the average commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using schedule_hrtimeout to give us a higher precision sleep time. This greatly benefits high end storage where you could end up sleeping for longer than it takes to commit the transaction and therefore sitting idle instead of allowing the transaction to be committed by keeping the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be doing something. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- include/linux/jbd2.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/jbd2.h') diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h index f36645745489..ab8cef130c28 100644 --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h @@ -637,6 +637,11 @@ struct transaction_s */ unsigned long t_expires; + /* + * When this transaction started, in nanoseconds [no locking] + */ + ktime_t t_start_time; + /* * How many handles used this transaction? [t_handle_lock] */ @@ -939,8 +944,18 @@ struct journal_s struct buffer_head **j_wbuf; int j_wbufsize; + /* + * this is the pid of hte last person to run a synchronous operation + * through the journal + */ pid_t j_last_sync_writer; + /* + * the average amount of time in nanoseconds it takes to commit a + * transaction to disk. [j_state_lock] + */ + u64 j_average_commit_time; + /* This function is called when a transaction is closed */ void (*j_commit_callback)(journal_t *, transaction_t *); -- cgit v1.2.2