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GFS2: Sort buffer lists by inplace block number

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This patch simply sort the data and metadata buffer lists by their
inplace block number.  This makes gfs2_log_flush issue the inplace IO
in sequential order, which will hopefully speed up writing the IO
out to disk.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Benjamin Marzinski 2013-05-07 09:58:49 -05:00 committed by Steven Whitehouse
parent 844ce9f204
commit 7f63257da1
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fs/gfs2/lops.c
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/gfs2_ondisk.h>
#include <linux/bio.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/list_sort.h>
#include "gfs2.h"
#include "incore.h"
@ -401,6 +402,20 @@ static void gfs2_check_magic(struct buffer_head *bh)
kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
}
static int blocknr_cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
{
struct gfs2_bufdata *bda, *bdb;
bda = list_entry(a, struct gfs2_bufdata, bd_list);
bdb = list_entry(b, struct gfs2_bufdata, bd_list);
if (bda->bd_bh->b_blocknr < bdb->bd_bh->b_blocknr)
return -1;
if (bda->bd_bh->b_blocknr > bdb->bd_bh->b_blocknr)
return 1;
return 0;
}
static void gfs2_before_commit(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int limit,
unsigned int total, struct list_head *blist,
bool is_databuf)
@ -413,6 +428,7 @@ static void gfs2_before_commit(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int limit,
__be64 *ptr;
gfs2_log_lock(sdp);
list_sort(NULL, blist, blocknr_cmp);
bd1 = bd2 = list_prepare_entry(bd1, blist, bd_list);
while(total) {
num = total;