kernel_optimize_test/fs
Dave Chinner e5884636da GFS2: ordered writes are backwards
When we queue data buffers for ordered write, the buffers are added
to the head of the ordered write list. When the log needs to push
these buffers to disk, it also walks the list from the head. The
result is that the the ordered buffers are submitted to disk in
reverse order.

For large writes, this means that whenever the log flushes large
streams of reverse sequential order buffers are pushed down into the
block layers. The elevators don't handle this particularly well, so
IO rates tend to be significantly lower than if the IO was issued in
ascending block order.

Queue new ordered buffers to the tail of the ordered buffer list to
ensure that IO is dispatched in the order it was submitted. This
should significantly improve large sequential write speeds. On a
disk capable of 85MB/s, speeds increase from 50MB/s to 65MB/s for
noop and from 38MB/s to 50MB/s for cfq.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:08:26 +00:00
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9p 9p: fix memory leak in v9fs_parse_options() 2010-02-08 17:59:34 -06:00
adfs adfs: remove redundant test on unsigned 2009-09-24 07:21:05 -07:00
affs fix affs parse_options() 2010-01-26 22:22:25 -05:00
afs afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
autofs trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
autofs4 autofs4: always use lookup for lookup 2009-12-16 07:19:58 -08:00
befs befs: fix leak 2010-02-07 03:06:21 -05:00
bfs Fix failure exits in bfs_fill_super() 2010-01-26 22:22:25 -05:00
btrfs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable 2010-02-15 19:56:21 -08:00
cachefiles CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename 2010-02-20 10:06:35 -05:00
cifs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2010-02-10 07:16:44 -08:00
coda sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler. 2009-11-18 08:37:40 -08:00
configfs Fix configfs leak 2010-01-14 09:05:42 -05:00
cramfs
debugfs get rid of pointless checks after simple_pin_fs() 2010-01-26 22:22:26 -05:00
devpts devpts_get_tty() should validate inode 2009-12-11 15:18:05 -08:00
dlm dlm: use bastmode in debugfs output 2010-02-26 12:15:54 -06:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: use after free 2010-01-19 22:36:06 -06:00
efs
exofs exofs: simple_write_end does not mark_inode_dirty 2010-01-05 09:14:32 +02:00
exportfs nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs 2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
ext2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-12-16 12:04:02 -08:00
ext3 ext3: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for resizing 2009-12-23 13:44:12 +01:00
ext4 ext4: Fix quota accounting error with fallocate 2010-01-25 04:00:31 -05:00
fat Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6 2009-12-16 10:29:26 -08:00
freevxfs
fscache FS-Cache: Avoid maybe-used-uninitialised warning on variable 2009-12-16 07:20:13 -08:00
fuse mm: flush dcache before writing into page to avoid alias 2010-02-02 18:11:21 -08:00
gfs2 GFS2: ordered writes are backwards 2010-03-01 14:08:26 +00:00
hfs hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow 2009-12-15 08:53:10 -08:00
hfsplus hfsplus: refuse to mount volumes larger than 2TB 2009-10-29 07:39:27 -07:00
hostfs
hpfs hpfs: use bitmap_weight() 2009-12-16 07:20:06 -08:00
hppfs hppfs: handle ->put_link() 2010-01-14 09:05:25 -05:00
hugetlbfs Untangling ima mess, part 1: alloc_file() 2009-12-16 12:16:47 -05:00
isofs Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-12-16 10:43:34 -08:00
jbd jbd: jbd-debug and jbd2-debug should be writable 2009-12-23 13:44:13 +01:00
jbd2 jbd2: don't use __GFP_NOFAIL in journal_init_common() 2009-12-23 08:05:15 -05:00
jffs2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-12-16 12:04:02 -08:00
jfs jfs: Fix 32bit build warning 2009-12-22 12:27:35 -05:00
lockd Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-12-16 10:43:34 -08:00
minix V3 minixfs: add missing directory type checking 2009-09-23 07:39:57 -07:00
ncpfs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
nfs Remove EXPERIMENTAL from NFS_FSCACHE 2010-02-26 17:22:35 -08:00
nfs_common
nfsd vfs: don't call ima_file_check() unconditionally in nfsd_open() 2010-02-20 00:47:31 -05:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: fix potential leak of dirty data on umount 2010-01-31 14:57:31 +09:00
nls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6 2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
notify inotify: only warn once for inotify problems 2010-01-15 14:49:23 -08:00
ntfs kill I_LOCK 2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2/cluster: Make o2net connect messages KERN_NOTICE 2010-02-08 13:02:28 -08:00
omfs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
openpromfs
partitions partitions: read whole sector with EFI GPT header 2009-11-23 09:29:58 +01:00
proc Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-02-28 10:13:16 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: use hweight8 2009-12-16 07:20:18 -08:00
quota quota: Fix dquot_transfer for filesystems different from ext4 2010-01-11 13:06:41 +01:00
ramfs nommu: fix shared mmap after truncate shrinkage problems 2010-01-16 12:15:40 -08:00
reiserfs reiserfs: Fix softlockup while waiting on an inode 2010-02-14 19:07:56 +01:00
romfs fix leak in romfs_fill_super() 2010-01-26 22:22:26 -05:00
smbfs fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe 2009-09-24 07:47:42 -04:00
squashfs const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
sysfs sysfs: sysfs_sd_setattr set iattrs unconditionally 2010-02-16 15:42:42 -08:00
sysv
ubifs lib: Introduce generic list_sort function 2010-01-12 21:02:00 -08:00
udf udf: Avoid IO in udf_clear_inode 2009-12-14 21:40:04 +01:00
ufs ufs: NFS support 2009-12-16 07:20:06 -08:00
xfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs 2010-02-26 17:18:52 -08:00
aio.c aio: remove unused field 2009-12-16 07:20:13 -08:00
anon_inodes.c Sanitize f_flags helpers 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
attr.c truncate: new helpers 2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
binfmt_elf.c Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
bio-integrity.c block: fix bugs in bio-integrity mempool usage 2010-01-30 20:28:19 +01:00
bio.c block: fix bio_add_page for non trivial merge_bvec_fn case 2010-01-28 15:08:29 +01:00
block_dev.c freeze_bdev: don't deactivate successfully frozen MS_RDONLY sb 2010-02-07 03:06:21 -05:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2009-09-25 09:27:30 -07:00
char_dev.c fs/char_dev.c: remove useless loop 2009-09-24 07:21:03 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 2010-02-11 14:05:55 -08:00
compat.c compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers 2009-12-14 18:12:10 -05:00
dcache.c libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name 2009-12-16 12:16:48 -05:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c dio: fix use-after-free 2009-12-17 04:52:13 -05:00
drop_caches.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
eventfd.c eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove 2010-01-25 12:26:38 -02:00
eventpoll.c anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
exec.c fs/exec.c: fix initial stack reservation 2010-02-22 19:50:34 -08:00
fcntl.c Fix race in tty_fasync() properly 2010-02-07 10:26:01 -08:00
fifo.c
file_table.c Take ima_file_free() to proper place. 2010-02-07 03:07:29 -05:00
file.c vfs: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses 2010-02-25 10:34:48 +01:00
filesystems.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: add missing kernel-doc notation 2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
generic_acl.c make generic_acl slightly more generic 2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
inode.c kill I_LOCK 2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
internal.h Fix f_flags/f_mode in case of lookup_instantiate_filp() from open(pathname, 3) 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
ioctl.c __generic_block_fiemap(): fix for files bigger than 4GB 2009-11-12 07:26:01 -08:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig Revert "task_struct: make journal_info conditional" 2009-12-17 13:23:24 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name 2009-12-16 12:16:48 -05:00
locks.c const: make lock_manager_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Makefile
mbcache.c
mpage.c
namei.c fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks" 2010-02-19 03:56:42 -05:00
namespace.c do_add_mount() should sanitize mnt_flags 2010-01-16 13:07:36 -05:00
nfsctl.c vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes 2009-12-14 18:12:11 -05:00
no-block.c
open.c Sanitize f_flags helpers 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
pipe.c fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED 2009-12-17 10:51:40 -05:00
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
read_write.c sendfile(): check f_op.splice_write() rather than f_op.sendpage() 2009-11-04 09:09:52 +01:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c headers: remove sched.h from poll.h 2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
seq_file.c vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling 2009-09-24 07:47:35 -04:00
signalfd.c anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
splice.c sendfile(): check f_op.splice_write() rather than f_op.sendpage() 2009-11-04 09:09:52 +01:00
stack.c VFS/fsstack: handle 32-bit smp + preempt + large files in fsstack_copy_inode_size 2009-12-17 10:58:17 -05:00
stat.c Add unlocked version of inode_add_bytes() function 2009-12-23 13:33:54 +01:00
super.c vfs: get_sb_single() - do not pass options twice 2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
sync.c fold do_sync_file_range into sys_sync_file_range 2009-12-17 11:03:25 -05:00
timerfd.c anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c VFS: Use GFP_NOFS in posix_acl_from_xattr() 2009-12-03 11:48:07 +00:00
xattr.c sanitize xattr handler prototypes 2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00