Re: [PATCH 0/3] flush delalloc by multi-task

On 10/25/2012 05:20 PM, Miao Xie wrote:

This patchset introduce multi-task delalloc flush, it can make the delalloc
flush more faster. And besides that, it also can fix the problem that we join
the same transaction handler more than 2 times.

Implementation:
- Create a new worker pool.
- Queue the inode with pending delalloc into the work queue of the worker pool
  when we want to force them into the disk, and then we will wait till all the
  works we submit are done. 
- The ordered extents also can be queued into this work queue. The process is
  similar to the second one.

I can see the potential improvements brought by flushing inodes this way.

But I don't think it makes much sense by making waiting process multi-task,
since even we spread wait order extents into different cpus, they just occpied
the cpu and went on waiting and scheduled then, I mean, the bottleneck is on
what we're waiting for.

Besides, considering that this patchset is about to getting us better performance,
I'm expecting any performance numbers (I'm a little worried about context switches
overhead).

btw, cool ideas indeed.

thanks,
liubo

Miao Xie (3):
      Btrfs: make delalloc inodes be flushed by multi-task
      Btrfs: make ordered operations be handled by multi-task
      Btrfs: make ordered extent be flushed by multi-task

 fs/btrfs/ctree.h        |   14 +++++++
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c      |    7 ++++
 fs/btrfs/inode.c        |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c |   87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 fs/btrfs/ordered-data.h |    7 +++-
 fs/btrfs/relocation.c   |    6 +++-
 fs/btrfs/transaction.c  |   24 ++++++++++---
 7 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
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