Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 5 authors, 2021-01-14

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove expensive flush on fast commit

From: Andreas Dilger <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-08 02:27:12
Also in: lkml

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:32 PM Daejun Park [off-list ref] wrote:
In the fast commit, it adds REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH on each fast commit
block when barrier is enabled. However, in recovery phase, ext4 compares
CRC value in the tail. So it is sufficient adds REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH
on the block that has tail.
Does the tail block *always* contain a CRC, or is that dependent on
EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM, JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_CSUM_V2,
or JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_CSUM_V3 being enabled?

If one of those features is *required* before the FAST_COMMIT feature
can be used, then this patch looks OK.  Otherwise, the CSUM feature
should be checked before the FUA is skipped for non-tail blocks.

Cheers, Andreas
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Daejun Park <redacted>
---
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
index 4fcc21c25e79..e66507be334c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
@@ -604,13 +604,13 @@ void ext4_fc_track_range(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t star
       trace_ext4_fc_track_range(inode, start, end, ret);
}

-static void ext4_fc_submit_bh(struct super_block *sb)
+static void ext4_fc_submit_bh(struct super_block *sb, bool is_tail)
{
       int write_flags = REQ_SYNC;
       struct buffer_head *bh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_fc_bh;

-       /* TODO: REQ_FUA | REQ_PREFLUSH is unnecessarily expensive. */
-       if (test_opt(sb, BARRIER))
+       /* Add REQ_FUA | REQ_PREFLUSH only its tail */
+       if (test_opt(sb, BARRIER) && is_tail)
               write_flags |= REQ_FUA | REQ_PREFLUSH;
       lock_buffer(bh);
       set_buffer_dirty(bh);
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static u8 *ext4_fc_reserve_space(struct super_block *sb, int len, u32 *crc)
               *crc = ext4_chksum(sbi, *crc, tl, sizeof(*tl));
       if (pad_len > 0)
               ext4_fc_memzero(sb, tl + 1, pad_len, crc);
-       ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb);
+       ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb, false);

       ret = jbd2_fc_get_buf(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, &bh);
       if (ret)
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ static int ext4_fc_write_tail(struct super_block *sb, u32 crc)
       tail.fc_crc = cpu_to_le32(crc);
       ext4_fc_memcpy(sb, dst, &tail.fc_crc, sizeof(tail.fc_crc), NULL);

-       ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb);
+       ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb, true);

       return 0;
}
--
2.25.1

Cheers, Andreas




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