xfs: reduce the number of log forces from tail pushing
The AIL push code will issue a log force on ever single push loop
that it exits and has encountered pinned items. It doesn't rescan
these pinned items until it revisits the AIL from the start. Hence
we only need to force the log once per walk from the start of the
AIL to the target LSN.
This results in numbers like this:
xs_push_ail_flush..... 1456
xs_log_force......... 1485
For an 8-way 50M inode create workload - almost all the log forces
are coming from the AIL pushing code.
Reduce the number of log forces by only forcing the log if the
previous walk found pinned buffers. This reduces the numbers to:
xs_push_ail_flush..... 665
xs_log_force......... 682
For the same test.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
index 212946b..0a6eec6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
struct delayed_work xa_work;
xfs_lsn_t xa_last_pushed_lsn;
unsigned long xa_flags;
+ int xa_log_flush;
};
#define XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT 0