GFS2: Add readahead to sequential directory traversal
This patch adds read-ahead capability to GFS2's
directory hash table management. It greatly improves
performance for some directory operations. For example:
In one of my file systems that has 1000 directories, each
of which has 1000 files, time to execute a recursive
ls (time ls -fR /mnt/gfs2 > /dev/null) was reduced
from 2m2.814s on a stock kernel to 0m45.938s.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/export.c b/fs/gfs2/export.c
index fe9945f..70ba891 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/export.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/export.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
struct gfs2_holder gh;
u64 offset = 0;
int error;
+ struct file_ra_state f_ra = { .start = 0 };
if (!dir)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@
if (error)
return error;
- error = gfs2_dir_read(dir, &offset, &gnfd, get_name_filldir);
+ error = gfs2_dir_read(dir, &offset, &gnfd, get_name_filldir, &f_ra);
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);