jbd2: improve jbd2 fsync batching

This patch removes the static sleep time in favor of a more self
optimizing approach where we measure the average amount of time it
takes to commit a transaction to disk and the ammount of time a
transaction has been running.  If somebody does a sync write or an
fsync() traditionally we would sleep for 1 jiffies, which depending on
the value of HZ could be a significant amount of time compared to how
long it takes to commit a transaction to the underlying storage.  With
this patch instead of sleeping for a jiffie, we check to see if the
amount of time this transaction has been running is less than the
average commit time, and if it is we sleep for the delta using
schedule_hrtimeout to give us a higher precision sleep time.  This
greatly benefits high end storage where you could end up sleeping for
longer than it takes to commit the transaction and therefore sitting
idle instead of allowing the transaction to be committed by keeping
the sleep time to a minimum so you are sure to always be doing
something.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 39b7805..13dcbc9 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 
 static void __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
 
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ jbd2_get_transaction(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction)
 {
 	transaction->t_journal = journal;
 	transaction->t_state = T_RUNNING;
+	transaction->t_start_time = ktime_get();
 	transaction->t_tid = journal->j_transaction_sequence++;
 	transaction->t_expires = jiffies + journal->j_commit_interval;
 	spin_lock_init(&transaction->t_handle_lock);
@@ -1193,7 +1195,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 {
 	transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction;
 	journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;
-	int old_handle_count, err;
+	int err;
 	pid_t pid;
 
 	J_ASSERT(journal_current_handle() == handle);
@@ -1216,24 +1218,52 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 	/*
 	 * Implement synchronous transaction batching.  If the handle
 	 * was synchronous, don't force a commit immediately.  Let's
-	 * yield and let another thread piggyback onto this transaction.
-	 * Keep doing that while new threads continue to arrive.
-	 * It doesn't cost much - we're about to run a commit and sleep
-	 * on IO anyway.  Speeds up many-threaded, many-dir operations
-	 * by 30x or more...
+	 * yield and let another thread piggyback onto this
+	 * transaction.  Keep doing that while new threads continue to
+	 * arrive.  It doesn't cost much - we're about to run a commit
+	 * and sleep on IO anyway.  Speeds up many-threaded, many-dir
+	 * operations by 30x or more...
+	 *
+	 * We try and optimize the sleep time against what the
+	 * underlying disk can do, instead of having a static sleep
+	 * time.  This is useful for the case where our storage is so
+	 * fast that it is more optimal to go ahead and force a flush
+	 * and wait for the transaction to be committed than it is to
+	 * wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
+	 * join the transaction.  We achieve this by measuring how
+	 * long it takes to commit a transaction, and compare it with
+	 * how long this transaction has been running, and if run time
+	 * < commit time then we sleep for the delta and commit.  This
+	 * greatly helps super fast disks that would see slowdowns as
+	 * more threads started doing fsyncs.
 	 *
-	 * But don't do this if this process was the most recent one to
-	 * perform a synchronous write.  We do this to detect the case where a
-	 * single process is doing a stream of sync writes.  No point in waiting
-	 * for joiners in that case.
+	 * But don't do this if this process was the most recent one
+	 * to perform a synchronous write.  We do this to detect the
+	 * case where a single process is doing a stream of sync
+	 * writes.  No point in waiting for joiners in that case.
 	 */
 	pid = current->pid;
 	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
+		u64 commit_time, trans_time;
+
 		journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;
-		do {
-			old_handle_count = transaction->t_handle_count;
-			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
-		} while (old_handle_count != transaction->t_handle_count);
+
+		spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+		commit_time = journal->j_average_commit_time;
+		spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+		trans_time = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(ktime_get(),
+						   transaction->t_start_time));
+
+		commit_time = min_t(u64, commit_time,
+				    1000*jiffies_to_usecs(1));
+
+		if (trans_time < commit_time) {
+			ktime_t expires = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(),
+						       commit_time);
+			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			schedule_hrtimeout(&expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+		}
 	}
 
 	current->journal_info = NULL;