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    xfs: remove the m_active_trans counter · b41b46c2
    Dave Chinner authored
    It's a global atomic counter, and we are hitting it at a rate of
    half a million transactions a second, so it's bouncing the counter
    cacheline all over the place on large machines. We don't actually
    need it anymore - it used to be required because the VFS freeze code
    could not track/prevent filesystem transactions that were running,
    but that problem no longer exists.
    
    Hence to remove the counter, we simply have to ensure that nothing
    calls xfs_sync_sb() while we are trying to quiesce the filesytem.
    That only happens if the log worker is still running when we call
    xfs_quiesce_attr(). The log worker is cancelled at the end of
    xfs_quiesce_attr() by calling xfs_log_quiesce(), so just call it
    early here and then we can remove the counter altogether.
    
    Concurrent create, 50 million inodes, identical 16p/16GB virtual
    machines on different physical hosts. Machine A has twice the CPU
    cores per socket of machine B:
    
    		unpatched	patched
    machine A:	3m16s		2m00s
    machine B:	4m04s		4m05s
    
    Create rates:
    		unpatched	patched
    machine A:	282k+/-31k	468k+/-21k
    machine B:	231k+/-8k	233k+/-11k
    
    Concurrent rm of same 50 million inodes:
    
    		unpatched	patched
    machine A:	6m42s		2m33s
    machine B:	4m47s		4m47s
    
    The transaction rate on the fast machine went from just under
    300k/sec to 700k/sec, which indicates just how much of a bottleneck
    this atomic counter was.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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