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Christoph Hellwig
b17b833443 xfs: remove xfs_get_buftarg_list
The code is unused and under a config option that doesn't exist, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:09 -05:00
Dave Chinner
3815832a2a xfs: Don't allocate new buffers on every call to _xfs_buf_find
Stats show that for an 8-way unlink @ ~80,000 unlinks/s we are doing
~1 million cache hit lookups to ~3000 buffer creates. That's almost
3 orders of magnitude more cahce hits than misses, so optimising for
cache hits is quite important. In the cache hit case, we do not need
to allocate a new buffer in case of a cache miss, so we are
effectively hitting the allocator for no good reason for vast the
majority of calls to _xfs_buf_find. 8-way create workloads are
showing similar cache hit/miss ratios.

The result is profiles that look like this:

     samples  pcnt function                        DSO
     _______ _____ _______________________________ _________________

     1036.00 10.0% _xfs_buf_find                   [kernel.kallsyms]
      582.00  5.6% kmem_cache_alloc                [kernel.kallsyms]
      519.00  5.0% __memcpy                        [kernel.kallsyms]
      468.00  4.5% __ticket_spin_lock              [kernel.kallsyms]
      388.00  3.7% kmem_cache_free                 [kernel.kallsyms]
      331.00  3.2% xfs_log_commit_cil              [kernel.kallsyms]


Further, there is a fair bit of work involved in initialising a new
buffer once a cache miss has occurred and we currently do that under
the rbtree spinlock. That increases spinlock hold time on what are
heavily used trees.

To fix this, remove the initialisation of the buffer from
_xfs_buf_find() and only allocate the new buffer once we've had a
cache miss. Initialise the buffer immediately after allocating it in
xfs_buf_get, too, so that is it ready for insert if we get another
cache miss after allocation. This minimises lock hold time and
avoids unnecessary allocator churn. The resulting profiles look
like:

     samples  pcnt function                    DSO
     _______ _____ ___________________________ _________________

     8111.00  9.1% _xfs_buf_find               [kernel.kallsyms]
     4380.00  4.9% __memcpy                    [kernel.kallsyms]
     4341.00  4.8% __ticket_spin_lock          [kernel.kallsyms]
     3401.00  3.8% kmem_cache_alloc            [kernel.kallsyms]
     2856.00  3.2% xfs_log_commit_cil          [kernel.kallsyms]
     2625.00  2.9% __kmalloc                   [kernel.kallsyms]
     2380.00  2.7% kfree                       [kernel.kallsyms]
     2016.00  2.3% kmem_cache_free             [kernel.kallsyms]

Showing a significant reduction in time spent doing allocation and
freeing from slabs (kmem_cache_alloc and kmem_cache_free).

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:08 -05:00
Chandra Seetharaman
eabbaf1182 xfs: Fix the incorrect comment in the header of _xfs_buf_find
Fix the incorrect comment in the header of the function
_xfs_buf_find().

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:02 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
c4e1c098ee xfs: use the "delwri" terminology consistently
And also remove the strange local lock and delwri list pointers in a few
functions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:00 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
c2b006c1da xfs: let xfs_bwrite callers handle the xfs_buf_relse
Remove the xfs_buf_relse from xfs_bwrite and let the caller handle it to
mirror the delwri and read paths.

Also remove the mount pointer passed to xfs_bwrite, which is superflous now
that we have a mount pointer in the buftarg.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:00 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
61551f1ee5 xfs: call xfs_buf_delwri_queue directly
Unify the ways we add buffers to the delwri queue by always calling
xfs_buf_delwri_queue directly.  The xfs_bdwrite functions is removed and
opencoded in its callers, and the two places setting XBF_DELWRI while a
buffer is locked and expecting xfs_buf_unlock to pick it up are converted
to call xfs_buf_delwri_queue directly, too.  Also replace the
XFS_BUF_UNDELAYWRITE macro with direct calls to xfs_buf_delwri_dequeue
to make the explicit queuing/dequeuing more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:14:59 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
5a8ee6bafd xfs: move more delwri setup into xfs_buf_delwri_queue
Do not transfer a reference held by the caller to the buffer on the list,
or decrement it in xfs_buf_delwri_queue, but instead grab a new reference
if needed, and let the caller drop its own reference.  Also move setting
of the XBF_DELWRI and XBF_ASYNC flags into xfs_buf_delwri_queue, and
only do it if needed.  Note that for now xfs_buf_unlock already has
XBF_DELWRI, but that will change in the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:14:59 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
527cfdf19d xfs: remove the unlock argument to xfs_buf_delwri_queue
We can just unlock the buffer in the caller, and the decrement of b_hold
would also be needed in the !unlock, we just never hit that case currently
given that the caller handles that case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:14:59 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
375ec69d2e xfs: remove delwri buffer handling from xfs_buf_iorequest
We cannot ever reach xfs_buf_iorequest for a buffer with XBF_DELWRI set,
given that all write handlers make sure that the buffer is remove from
the delwri queue before, and we never do reads with the XBF_DELWRI flag
set (which the code would not handle correctly anyway).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:14:59 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
c59d87c460 xfs: remove subdirectories
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code.  Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00