Commit 1fca3a05 authored Mar 05, 2009 by Hisashi Hifumi Committed by Mark Fasheh Apr 03, 2009

ocfs2: Pagecache usage optimization on ocfs2

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.

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

parent 6ca497a8

fs/ocfs2/aops.c

+12 −11

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		@@ -1967,4 +1967,5 @@ const struct address_space_operations ocfs2_aops = {
		.invalidatepage = ocfs2_invalidatepage,
		.releasepage = ocfs2_releasepage,
		.migratepage = buffer_migrate_page,
		.is_partially_uptodate = block_is_partially_uptodate,
		};

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