tree 549d1ff3f8e5ecb9675a2937113aa99e64ef3ea1
parent 0d606e2c9fccdd4e67febf1e2da500e1bfe9e045
author Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> 1367561752 -0400
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1367561752 -0400

ext4: fix fio regression

We (Linux Kernel Performance project) found a regression introduced
by commit:

  f7fec032aa ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree

The commit causes about 20% performance decrease in fio random write
test. Profiler shows that rb_next() uses a lot of CPU time. The call
stack is:

  rb_next
  ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
  ext4_map_blocks
  _ext4_get_block
  ext4_get_block_write
  __blockdev_direct_IO
  ext4_direct_IO
  generic_file_direct_write
  __generic_file_aio_write
  ext4_file_write
  aio_rw_vect_retry
  aio_run_iocb
  do_io_submit
  sys_io_submit
  system_call_fastpath
  io_submit
  td_io_getevents
  io_u_queued_complete
  thread_main
  main
  __libc_start_main

The cause is that ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() doesn't have an
upper bound, it keeps searching until a delayed extent is found.
When there are a lots of non-delayed entries in the extent state
tree, ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() may uses a lot of CPU time.

Reported-by: LKP project <lkp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>