Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: do not mark inode dirty every time in delalloc append write scenario

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:43:33 +0800, Liu Song wrote:
> In the delalloc append write scenario, if inode's i_size is extended due
> to buffer write, there are delalloc writes pending in the range up to
> i_size, and no need to touch i_disksize since writeback will push
> i_disksize up to i_size eventually. Offers significant performance
> improvement in high-frequency append write scenarios.
> 
> I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent
> threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a
> length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this
> patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the
> test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of
> 34%.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: do not mark inode dirty every time in delalloc append write scenario
      commit: 40b14c55e3d0496c5db7dd60b90a5c30933ac033

Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>