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Dave Chinner 7747bd4bce sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO 
When sync does it's WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, it issues data Io and
then immediately waits for IO completion. This is done in the
context of the flusher thread, and hence completely ties up the
flusher thread for the backing device until all the dirty inodes
have been synced. On filesystems that are dirtying inodes constantly
and quickly, this means the flusher thread can be tied up for
minutes per sync call and hence badly affect system level write IO
performance as the page cache cannot be cleaned quickly.

We already have a wait loop for IO completion for sync(2), so cut
this out of the flusher thread and delegate it to wait_sb_inodes().
Hence we can do rapid IO submission, and then wait for it all to
complete.

Effect of sync on fsmark before the patch:

FSUse%        Count         Size    Files/sec     App Overhead
.....
     0       640000         4096      35154.6          1026984
     0       720000         4096      36740.3          1023844
     0       800000         4096      36184.6           916599
     0       880000         4096       1282.7          1054367
     0       960000         4096       3951.3           918773
     0      1040000         4096      40646.2           996448
     0      1120000         4096      43610.1           895647
     0      1200000         4096      40333.1           921048

And a single sync pass took:

  real    0m52.407s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.090s

After the patch, there is no impact on fsmark results, and each
individual sync(2) operation run concurrently with the same fsmark
workload takes roughly 7s:

  real    0m6.930s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.039s

IOWs, sync is 7-8x faster on a busy filesystem and does not have an
adverse impact on ongoing async data write operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-02 09:16:42 -07:00
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9p aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
adfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
affs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
afs aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
autofs4 autofs - remove autofs dentry mount check 2013-05-06 13:06:59 -07:00
befs befs_readdir(): do not increment ->f_pos if filldir tells us to stop 2013-05-31 15:17:56 -04:00
bfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2013-06-13 22:34:14 -07:00
cachefiles lift sb_start_write() out of ->write() 2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2013-06-12 08:28:19 -07:00
cifs cifs: fix off-by-one bug in build_unc_path_to_root 2013-05-31 16:23:35 -05:00
coda lift sb_start_write() out of ->write() 2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
configfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
cramfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
debugfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
devpts fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules (Part 2). 2013-03-07 01:08:55 -08:00
dlm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
ecryptfs eCryptfs: Check return of filemap_write_and_wait during fsync 2013-06-04 23:53:31 -07:00
efivarfs efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again 2013-05-13 20:12:10 +01:00
efs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
exofs block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all() 2013-03-23 14:26:28 -07:00
exportfs hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
ext2 aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
ext3 Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2013-05-07 20:49:51 -07:00
ext4 Fixed regressions (two stability regressions and a performance 2013-05-14 09:30:54 -07:00
f2fs f2fs updates for v3.10 2013-05-08 15:11:48 -07:00
fat fat: fix possible overflow for fat_clusters 2013-05-24 16:22:50 -07:00
freevxfs fs: Readd the fs module aliases. 2013-03-12 18:55:21 -07:00
fscache fs/fscache/stats.c: fix memory leak 2013-04-29 15:54:27 -07:00
fuse fuse: hold i_mutex in fuse_file_fallocate() 2013-06-18 01:39:03 +02:00
gfs2 GFS2: Don't cache iopen glocks 2013-06-03 16:40:22 +01:00
hfs hfs: avoid crash in hfs_bnode_create 2013-05-24 16:22:51 -07:00
hfsplus aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
hostfs hostfs: use kmalloc instead of kzalloc 2013-05-04 15:48:45 -04:00
hpfs hpfs: fix warnings when the filesystem fills up 2013-06-08 17:39:40 -07:00
hppfs hppfs: get rid of ->fsync() 2013-04-29 15:41:42 -04:00
hugetlbfs hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
isofs fs: Readd the fs module aliases. 2013-03-12 18:55:21 -07:00
jbd Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2013-05-03 09:56:25 -07:00
jbd2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
jffs2 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
jfs fs/jfs: Add check if journaling to disk has been disabled in lbmRead() 2013-05-24 16:03:47 -05:00
lockd LOCKD: Ensure that nlmclnt_block resets block->b_status after a server reboot 2013-04-21 18:08:42 -04:00
logfs block: Remove bi_idx references 2013-03-23 14:15:31 -07:00
minix fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
ncpfs ncpfs: fix rmdir returns Device or resource busy 2013-06-07 12:15:38 -04:00
nfs NFS: Fix security flavor negotiation with legacy binary mounts 2013-05-30 16:31:34 -04:00
nfs_common nfs_common: Update the translation between nfsv3 acls linux posix acls 2013-02-13 06:15:14 -08:00
nfsd Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2013-05-10 09:28:55 -07:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary 2013-05-24 16:22:52 -07:00
nls
notify unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
ntfs aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: add missing lockres put in dlm_mig_lockres_handler 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
omfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
openpromfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
proc kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg 2013-06-12 16:29:44 -07:00
pstore Couple of pstore cleanups 2013-05-09 16:42:10 -07:00
qnx4 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
qnx6 qnx6: qnx6_readdir() has a braino in pos calculation 2013-05-31 15:17:31 -04:00
quota quota: add missing use of dq_data_lock in __dquot_initialize 2013-03-11 22:05:56 +01:00
ramfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
reiserfs reiserfs: fix deadlock with nfs racing on create/lookup 2013-05-31 23:14:20 +02:00
romfs romfs: fix nommu map length to keep inside filesystem 2013-04-29 09:17:57 +10:00
squashfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. (Part 3) 2013-03-11 07:09:48 -07:00
sysfs sysfs: check if one entry has been removed before freeing 2013-04-05 15:35:52 -07:00
sysv fs: Readd the fs module aliases. 2013-03-12 18:55:21 -07:00
ubifs UBIFS: fix a horrid bug 2013-06-29 12:45:37 +04:00
udf aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
ufs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-04-30 09:36:50 -07:00
xfs xfs: don't shutdown log recovery on validation errors 2013-06-14 15:59:45 -05:00
aio.c aio: fix io_destroy() regression by using call_rcu() 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
anon_inodes.c get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero 2013-02-26 02:46:11 -05:00
attr.c
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-05-02 10:16:16 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-05-02 10:16:16 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c new helper: read_code() 2013-04-29 15:40:23 -04:00
binfmt_misc.c binfmt_misc: reuse string_unescape_inplace() 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf 2013-03-23 14:26:34 -07:00
bio.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
block_dev.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Removed unused typedef to avoid "unused local typedef" warnings. 2013-05-04 15:03:05 -04:00
compat.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
coredump.c do_coredump(): don't wait for thaw if coredump has already been interrupted 2013-05-04 14:45:54 -04:00
coredump.h
dcache.c vfs: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add 2013-05-04 15:43:02 -04:00
dcookies.c consolidate compat lookup_dcookie() 2013-03-03 23:00:23 -05:00
direct-io.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
exec.c perf: Disable monitoring on setuid processes for regular users 2013-06-26 11:40:18 +02:00
fcntl.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c fput: task_work_add() can fail if the caller has passed exit_task_work() 2013-06-15 05:39:08 +04:00
file.c don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables 2013-05-01 17:31:42 -04:00
filesystems.c fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
fs_struct.c constify path_get/path_put and fs_struct.c stuff 2013-03-01 23:51:07 -05:00
fs-writeback.c sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO 2013-07-02 09:16:42 -07:00
generic_acl.c
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
internal.h splice: don't pass the address of ->f_pos to methods 2013-06-20 19:02:45 +04:00
ioctl.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig efivarfs: Move to fs/efivarfs 2013-04-17 13:25:09 +01:00
Kconfig.binfmt fs: make binfmt support for #! scripts modular and removable 2013-04-30 17:04:04 -07:00
libfs.c
locks.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
mbcache.c
mount.h get rid of full-hash scan on detaching vfsmounts 2013-04-09 14:12:52 -04:00
mpage.c
namei.c use can_lookup() instead of direct checks of ->i_op->lookup 2013-06-15 05:41:45 +04:00
namespace.c create_mnt_ns: unidiomatic use of list_add() 2013-05-04 15:18:53 -04:00
no-block.c
open.c make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect 2013-03-03 22:58:33 -05:00
pipe.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
pnode.c vfs: Fix invalid ida_remove() call 2013-05-31 15:16:33 -04:00
pnode.h Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
posix_acl.c
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c splice: don't pass the address of ->f_pos to methods 2013-06-20 19:02:45 +04:00
readdir.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
select.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
seq_file.c new helper: single_open_size() 2013-04-09 14:13:29 -04:00
signalfd.c switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-03-03 22:58:46 -05:00
splice.c fs: fix new splice.c kernel-doc warning 2013-06-23 16:19:56 -10:00
stack.c
stat.c switch vfs_getattr() to struct path 2013-02-26 02:46:08 -05:00
statfs.c
super.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
sync.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
timerfd.c compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls 2013-03-02 09:35:13 -05:00
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c