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Kazuo Ito 2cde04e90d pNFS: Avoid read/modify/write when it is not necessary 
As the block and SCSI layouts can only read/write fixed-length
blocks, we must perform read-modify-write when data to be written is
not aligned to a block boundary or smaller than the block size.
(612aa983a0 pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin)

The current code tries to see if we have to do read-modify-write
on block-oriented pNFS layouts by just checking !PageUptodate(page),
but the same condition also applies for overwriting of any uncached
potions of existing files, making such operations excessively slow
even it is block-aligned.

The change does not affect the optimization for modify-write-read
cases (38c73044f5 NFS: read-modify-write page updating),
because partial update of !PageUptodate() pages can only happen
in layouts that can do arbitrary length read/write and never
in block-based ones.

Testing results:

We ran fio on one of the pNFS clients running 4.20 kernel
(vanilla and patched) in this configuration to read/write/overwrite
files on the storage array, exported as pnfs share by the server.

 pNFS clients ---1G Ethernet--- pNFS server
 (HP DL360 G8)                  (HP DL360 G8)
       |                              |
       |                              |
       +------8G Fiber Channel--------+
                     |
               Storage Array
                 (HP P6350)

Throughput of overwrite (both buffered and O_SYNC) is noticeably
improved.

Ops.     |block size|   Throughput   |
         |  (KiB)   |    (MiB/s)     |
         |          |  4.20 | patched|
---------+----------+----------------+
buffered |         4|  21.3 |  232   |
overwrite|        32|  22.2 |  256   |
         |       512|  22.4 |  260   |
---------+----------+----------------+
O_SYNC   |         4|   3.84|    4.77|
overwrite|        32|  12.2 |   32.0 |
         |       512|  18.5 |  152   |
---------+----------+----------------+

Read and write (buffered and O_SYNC) by the same client remain unchanged
by the patch either negatively or positively, as they should do.

Ops.     |block size|   Throughput   |
         |  (KiB)   |    (MiB/s)     |
         |          |  4.20 | patched|
---------+----------+----------------+
read     |         4| 548   |  550   |
         |        32| 547   |  551   |
         |       512| 548   |  551   |
---------+----------+----------------+
buffered |         4| 237   |  244   |
write    |        32| 261   |  268   |
         |       512| 265   |  272   |
---------+----------+----------------+
O_SYNC   |         4|   0.46|    0.46|
write    |        32|   3.60|    3.57|
         |       512| 105   |  106   |
---------+----------+----------------+

Signed-off-by: Kazuo Ito <ito_kazuo_g3@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Hiroyuki Watanabe <watanabe.hiroyuki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
2019-02-20 17:33:55 -05:00
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firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs pNFS: Avoid read/modify/write when it is not necessary 2019-02-20 17:33:55 -05:00
include NFS: Pass error information to the pgio error cleanup routine 2019-02-20 15:14:20 -05:00
init Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init" 2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 5.0-rc7 2019-02-12 10:18:08 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc7 2019-02-17 18:46:40 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.