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In case if the file already has underlying blocks/extents allocated then we don't need to start a journal txn and can directly return the underlying mapping. Currently ext4_iomap_begin() is used by both DAX & DIO path. We can check if the write request is an overwrite & then directly return the mapping information. This could give a significant perf boost for multi-threaded writes specially random overwrites. On PPC64 VM with simulated pmem(DAX) device, ~10x perf improvement could be seen in random writes (overwrite). Also bcoz this optimizes away the spinlock contention during jbd2 slab cache allocation (jbd2_journal_handle). On x86 VM, ~2x perf improvement was observed. Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/88e795d8a4d5cd22165c7ebe857ba91d68d8813e.1600401668.git.riteshh@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> |
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Linux kernel
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