GFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on GFS2

I introduced "is_partially_uptodate" aops for GFS2.

A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.
"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.

I did a performance test using the sysbench.

#sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=200000 --test=fileio --file-num=1
--file-block-size=8K --file-total-size=2G --file-test-mode=rndrw --file-fsync-freq=0
--file-rw-ratio=1 run

-2.6.29-rc6
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          202.6389s
    total number of events:              200000
    total time taken by event execution: 2580.0480
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.0129s
         max:                            49.5852s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.0462s

-2.6.29-rc6-patched
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          177.8639s
    total number of events:              200000
    total time taken by event execution: 2419.0199
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.0121s
         max:                            52.4306s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.0444s

arch: ia64
pagesize: 16k
blocksize: 4k

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
index a6d00e8ffe10d0e71bc184ba0a60b1a8e4f7935c..a6dde1751e17dfc48d57979c7d71ab30f755214b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
@@ -1096,6 +1096,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_writeback_aops = {
        .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
        .direct_IO = gfs2_direct_IO,
        .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page,
+       .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 };
 
 static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_ordered_aops = {
@@ -1111,6 +1112,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_ordered_aops = {
        .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
        .direct_IO = gfs2_direct_IO,
        .migratepage = buffer_migrate_page,
+       .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 };
 
 static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_jdata_aops = {
@@ -1125,6 +1127,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations gfs2_jdata_aops = {
        .bmap = gfs2_bmap,
        .invalidatepage = gfs2_invalidatepage,
        .releasepage = gfs2_releasepage,
+       .is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 };
 
 void gfs2_set_aops(struct inode *inode)