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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Give kjournald a IOPRIO_CLASS_RT io priority
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:00:54 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:24:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Mount a junk partition with `-oakpm' and run some benchmarks. If the
> > results are "wow" then it's worth spending time on. If the results are
> > "meh" then we can not bother..
> >
>
> I've ported the patch to the ext4 filesystem, and dropped it into the
> unstable portion of the ext4 patch queue.

Useful, thanks.

> If we can get someone (hi,
> Ric!) to run fs_mark with and without -o akpm_lock_hack, I suspect we
> will find that it makes quite a large difference on that particular
> benchmark, since it is fsync-heavy to force a large number of
> transaction, and the creation of the inodes should cause multiple
> blocks that will be entangled between the current and committing
> transactions.
>

fsync? Yes, I suppose so. Repeated modifications to the same
inodes/directories/bitmaps blocks/etc will hurt.

A quick test on other quantified workloads would be useful too. If the
results look promising then someone(tm) will need to work out how to
fix this for real.

>
> ext4: akpm's locking hack to fix locking delays
>
> This is a port of the following patch from Andrew Morton to ext4:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/3/22
>
> This fixes a major contention problem in do_get_write_access() when a
> buffer is modified in both the current and committing transaction.

More specifically: "under checkpoint writeback in the committing
transaction when the committing transaction requests write access".



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