kernel_optimize_test/mm
Hisashi Hifumi 8ab22b9abb vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize
When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
is issued and this page will be uptodate.

I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.

So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
reduce read IO and improve system throughput.

I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.

This benchmark do:

  1: mount and open a test file.

  2: create a 512MB file.

  3: close a file and umount.

  4: mount and again open a test file.

  5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
     by IO size(1024bytes).

  6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.

The result was:
	2.6.26
        330 sec

	2.6.26-patched
        226 sec

Arch:i386
Filesystem:ext3
Blocksize:1024 bytes
Memory: 1GB

On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
showed this.

The benchmark program is as follows:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

#define LEN 1024
#define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */

main(void)
{
	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
	int fd;
	char buf[LEN];
	time_t t1, t2;

	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++)
		write(fd, buf, LEN);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
	for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	printf("start test\n");
	time(&t1);
	for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	time(&t2);
	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
}

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
..
allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
filemap.c vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
fremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
highmem.c
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c must #include <asm/io.h> 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run() 2008-07-28 12:16:31 +10:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode 2008-07-28 16:30:20 -07:00
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c