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[PATCH] ext3 sequential read regression fix

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ext3-get-blocks support caused ~20% degrade in Sequential read
performance (tiobench). Problem is with marking the buffer boundary
so IO can be submitted right away. Here is the patch to fix it.

  2.6.18-rc6:
  -----------
  # ./iotest
  1048576+0 records in
  1048576+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 75.2726 seconds, 57.1 MB/s

  real    1m15.285s
  user    0m0.276s
  sys     0m3.884s

  2.6.18-rc6 + fix:
  -----------------
  [root@elm3a241 ~]# ./iotest
  1048576+0 records in
  1048576+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 62.9356 seconds, 68.2 MB/s

The boundary block check in ext3_get_blocks_handle needs to be adjusted
against the count of blocks mapped in this call, now that it can map
more than one block.

Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Suparna Bhattacharya 2006-09-16 12:15:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e4b69aa2a1
commit 20acaa18d0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/ext3/inode.c
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@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
set_buffer_new(bh_result);
got_it:
map_bh(bh_result, inode->i_sb, le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key));
if (blocks_to_boundary == 0)
if (count > blocks_to_boundary)
set_buffer_boundary(bh_result);
err = count;
/* Clean up and exit */