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authorSebastien Buisson <sebastien.buisson@bull.net>2014-10-09 15:29:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:26:02 -0400
commit86cf78d73de8c6bfa89804b91ee0ace71a459961 (patch)
tree2cb7facefd7c5609bde031400b8a4130da67ef21 /fs
parent2c0346a36cc8ac6cb85ab585964590974c84bdf0 (diff)
downloadlinux-86cf78d73de8c6bfa89804b91ee0ace71a459961.tar.gz
fs/buffer.c: increase the buffer-head per-CPU LRU size
Increase the buffer-head per-CPU LRU size to allow efficient filesystem
operations that access many blocks for each transaction.  For example,
creating a file in a large ext4 directory with quota enabled will access
multiple buffer heads and will overflow the LRU at the default 8-block LRU
size:

* parent directory inode table block (ctime, nlinks for subdirs)
* new inode bitmap
* inode table block
* 2 quota blocks
* directory leaf block (not reused, but pollutes one cache entry)
* 2 levels htree blocks (only one is reused, other pollutes cache)
* 2 levels indirect/index blocks (only one is reused)

The buffer-head per-CPU LRU size is raised to 16, as it shows in metadata
performance benchmarks up to 10% gain for create, 4% for lookup and 7% for
destroy.

Signed-off-by: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Buisson <sebastien.buisson@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 7bd5c4685e98..44c14a87750e 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ static struct buffer_head *__bread_slow(struct buffer_head *bh)
  * a local interrupt disable for that.
  */
 
-#define BH_LRU_SIZE	8
+#define BH_LRU_SIZE	16
 
 struct bh_lru {
 	struct buffer_head *bhs[BH_LRU_SIZE];