xfs: pagecache usage optimization

Hi.

I introduced "is_partially_uptodate" aops for XFS.

A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate,
some buffers can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.

This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.

"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read
after random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance
improvement.

I did a performance test using the sysbench.

#sysbench --num-threads=4 --max-requests=100000 --test=fileio --file-num=1 \
--file-block-size=8K --file-total-size=1G --file-test-mode=rndrw \
--file-fsync-freq=0 --file-rw-ratio=0.5 run

-2.6.29-rc6
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          123.8645s
    total number of events:              100000
    total time taken by event execution: 442.4994
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.0044s
         max:                            0.3387s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.0118s

-2.6.29-rc6-patched
Test execution summary:
    total time:                          108.0757s
    total number of events:              100000
    total time taken by event execution: 417.7505
    per-request statistics:
         min:                            0.0000s
         avg:                            0.0042s
         max:                            0.3217s
         approx.  95 percentile:         0.0118s

arch: ia64
pagesize: 16k
blocksize: 4k

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index de3a198f771e..c13f67300fe7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1623,4 +1623,5 @@ const struct address_space_operations xfs_address_space_operations = {
 	.bmap			= xfs_vm_bmap,
 	.direct_IO		= xfs_vm_direct_IO,
 	.migratepage		= buffer_migrate_page,
+	.is_partially_uptodate  = block_is_partially_uptodate,
 };