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: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Jaegeuk Kim 2015-03-13 21:44:36 -07:00
parent 3402e87cfb
commit 78373b7319
3 changed files with 0 additions and 9 deletions

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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);

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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 */

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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);