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| author | Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> | 2012-02-03 15:37:17 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-13 11:16:50 -0800 |
| commit | 76af79f393ad562077f79627a4c719219ef09ee8 (patch) | |
| tree | 692974f21f10f2ef40969c278e35d229a35c78b2 /mm/filemap.c | |
| parent | 61339713b47d8905f3079bbd63d8e29343dd86ef (diff) | |
readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug
commit 3deaa7190a8da38453c4fabd9dec7f66d17fff67 upstream.
Herbert Poetzl reported a performance regression since 2.6.39. The test
is a simple dd read, but with big block size. The reason is:
T1: ra (A, A+128k), (A+128k, A+256k)
T2: lock_page for page A, submit the 256k
T3: hit page A+128K, ra (A+256k, A+384). the range isn't submitted
because of plug and there isn't any lock_page till we hit page A+256k
because all pages from A to A+256k is in memory
T4: hit page A+256k, ra (A+384, A+ 512). Because of plug, the range isn't
submitted again.
T5: lock_page A+256k, so (A+256k, A+512k) will be submitted. The task is
waitting for (A+256k, A+512k) finish.
There is no request to disk in T3 and T4, so readahead pipeline breaks.
We really don't need block plug for generic_file_aio_read() for buffered
I/O. The readahead already has plug and has fine grained control when I/O
should be submitted. Deleting plug for buffered I/O fixes the regression.
One side effect is plug makes the request size 256k, the size is 128k
without it. This is because default ra size is 128k and not a reason we
need plug here.
Vivek said:
: We submit some readahead IO to device request queue but because of nested
: plug, queue never gets unplugged. When read logic reaches a page which is
: not in page cache, it waits for page to be read from the disk
: (lock_page_killable()) and that time we flush the plug list.
:
: So effectively read ahead logic is kind of broken in parts because of
: nested plugging. Removing top level plug (generic_file_aio_read()) for
: buffered reads, will allow unplugging queue earlier for readahead.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 90286a464212..03c5b0ec2b78 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1400,15 +1400,12 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long seg = 0; size_t count; loff_t *ppos = &iocb->ki_pos; - struct blk_plug plug; count = 0; retval = generic_segment_checks(iov, &nr_segs, &count, VERIFY_WRITE); if (retval) return retval; - blk_start_plug(&plug); - /* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */ if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) { loff_t size; @@ -1424,8 +1421,12 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1); if (!retval) { + struct blk_plug plug; + + blk_start_plug(&plug); retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(READ, iocb, iov, pos, nr_segs); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); } if (retval > 0) { *ppos = pos + retval; @@ -1481,7 +1482,6 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, break; } out: - blk_finish_plug(&plug); return retval; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read); |