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Commit 78373b73 authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: enhance multi-threads performance 



Previously, f2fs_write_data_pages has a mutex, sbi->writepages, to serialize
data writes to maximize write bandwidth, while sacrificing multi-threads
performance.
Practically, however, multi-threads environment is much more important for
users. So this patch tries to remove the mutex.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
parent 3402e87c

fs/f2fs/data.c

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@@ -1397,7 +1397,6 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping, 
{

	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;

	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);

	bool locked = false;

	int ret;

	long diff;
@@ -1418,13 +1417,7 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping, 


	diff = nr_pages_to_write(sbi, DATA, wbc);



	if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {

		mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages);

		locked = true;

	}

	ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __f2fs_writepage, mapping);

	if (locked)

		mutex_unlock(&sbi->writepages);



	f2fs_submit_merged_bio(sbi, DATA, WRITE);

fs/f2fs/f2fs.h

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@@ -613,7 +613,6 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info { 
	struct mutex cp_mutex;			/* checkpoint procedure lock */

	struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem;		/* blocking FS operations */

	struct rw_semaphore node_write;		/* locking node writes */

	struct mutex writepages;		/* mutex for writepages() */

	wait_queue_head_t cp_wait;



	struct inode_management im[MAX_INO_ENTRY];      /* manage inode cache */

fs/f2fs/super.c

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@@ -1027,7 +1027,6 @@ static int f2fs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) 
	sbi->raw_super = raw_super;

	sbi->raw_super_buf = raw_super_buf;

	mutex_init(&sbi->gc_mutex);

	mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);

	mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);

	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);

	clear_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_POR_DOING);