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Filipe Manana 0d7d316597 btrfs: don't set the full sync flag when truncation does not touch extents
At btrfs_truncate() where we truncate the inode either to the same size
or to a smaller size, we always set the full sync flag on the inode.

This is needed in case the truncation drops or trims any file extent items
that start beyond or cross the new inode size, so that the next fsync
drops all inode items from the log and scans again the fs/subvolume tree
to find all items that must be logged.

However if the truncation does not drop or trims any file extent items, we
do not need to set the full sync flag and force the next fsync to use the
slow code path. So do not set the full sync flag in such cases.

One use case where it is frequent to do truncations that do not change
the inode size and do not drop any extents (no prealloc extents beyond
i_size) is when running Microsoft's SQL Server inside a Docker container.
One example workload is the one Philipp Fent reported recently, in the
thread with a link below. In this workload a large number of fsyncs are
preceded by such truncate operations.

After this change I constantly get the runtime for that workload from
Philipp to be reduced by about -12%, for example from 184 seconds down
to 162 seconds.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/93c4600e-5263-5cba-adf0-6f47526e7561@in.tum.de/
Tested-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2021-06-21 15:19:05 +02:00
arch A first set of urgent fixes to the FPU/XSTATE handling mess^W code. 2021-06-20 09:09:58 -07:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto async_xor: check src_offs is not NULL before updating it 2021-06-10 19:40:14 -07:00
Documentation RISC-V Fixes for 5.13-rc7 2021-06-19 08:45:34 -07:00
drivers A single fix for GICv3 to not take an interrupt in an NMI context. 2021-06-20 09:38:14 -07:00
fs btrfs: don't set the full sync flag when truncation does not touch extents 2021-06-21 15:19:05 +02:00
include Networking fixes for 5.13-rc7, including fixes from wireless, bpf, 2021-06-18 18:55:29 -07:00
init pid: take a reference when initializing cad_pid 2021-06-05 08:58:11 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
kernel - A single fix to restore fairness between control groups with equal priority 2021-06-20 09:44:52 -07:00
lib lib: crc64: fix kernel-doc warning 2021-06-05 08:58:12 -07:00
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mm mm/sparse: fix check_usemap_section_nr warnings 2021-06-16 09:24:43 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.13-rc7, including fixes from wireless, bpf, 2021-06-18 18:55:29 -07:00
samples VFIO fixes for v5.13-rc5 2021-06-03 11:52:24 -07:00
scripts recordmcount: Correct st_shndx handling 2021-06-18 09:09:17 -04:00
security trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
sound sound fixes for 5.13-rc6 2021-06-11 10:47:10 -07:00
tools tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/in.h copy with the kernel sources 2021-06-19 10:15:22 -03:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: VMX: update vcpu posted-interrupt descriptor when assigning device 2021-05-27 07:58:23 -04:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.13-rc7, including fixes from wireless, bpf, 2021-06-18 18:55:29 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.13-rc7 2021-06-20 15:03:15 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.