Btrfs: avoid tree log commit when there are no changes

rpm has a habit of running fdatasync when the file hasn't
changed.  We already detect if a file hasn't been changed
in the current transaction but it might have been sent to
the tree-log in this transaction and not changed since
the last call to fsync.

In this case, we want to avoid a tree log sync, which includes
a number of synchronous writes and barriers.  This commit
extends the existing tracking of the last transaction to change
a file to also track the last sub-transaction.

The end result is that rpm -ivh and -Uvh are roughly twice as fast,
and on par with ext3.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index ac8927b..d4132aa 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -919,6 +919,7 @@ static int __setup_root(u32 nodesize, u32 leafsize, u32 sectorsize,
 	atomic_set(&root->log_writers, 0);
 	root->log_batch = 0;
 	root->log_transid = 0;
+	root->last_log_commit = 0;
 	extent_io_tree_init(&root->dirty_log_pages,
 			     fs_info->btree_inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
 
@@ -1089,6 +1090,7 @@ int btrfs_add_log_tree(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	WARN_ON(root->log_root);
 	root->log_root = log_root;
 	root->log_transid = 0;
+	root->last_log_commit = 0;
 	return 0;
 }