[PATCH 37/97] mm/filemap.c: avoid always dirtying mapping->flags on O_DIRECT

[Mel Gorman]

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>

commit 7fcbbaf18392f0b17c95e2f033c8ccf87eecde1d upstream.

In some testing I ran today (some fio jobs that spread over two nodes),
we end up spending 40% of the time in filemap_check_errors().  That
smells fishy.  Looking further, this is basically what happens:

blkdev_aio_read()
    generic_file_aio_read()
        filemap_write_and_wait_range()
            if (!mapping->nr_pages)
                filemap_check_errors()

and filemap_check_errors() always attempts two test_and_clear_bit() on
the mapping flags, thus dirtying it for every single invocation.  The
patch below tests each of these bits before clearing them, avoiding this
issue.  In my test case (4-socket box), performance went from 1.7M IOPS
to 4.0M IOPS.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index df13a9b..ed99e57 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -192,9 +192,11 @@ static int filemap_check_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	/* Check for outstanding write errors */
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags))
+	if (test_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags) &&
+	    test_and_clear_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags))
 		ret = -ENOSPC;
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags))
+	if (test_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags) &&
+	    test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags))
 		ret = -EIO;
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.4.5

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