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    btrfs: stop incrementing log batch when joining log transaction · bc5b5b1e
    Filipe Manana authored
    When joining a log transaction we acquire the root's log mutex, then
    increment the root's log batch and log writers counters while holding
    the mutex. However we don't need to increment the log batch there,
    because we are holding the mutex and incremented the log writers counter
    as well, so any other task trying to sync log will wait for the current
    task to finish its logging and still achieve the desired log batching.
    
    Since the log batch counter is an atomic counter and is incremented twice
    at the very beginning of the fsync callback (btrfs_sync_file()), once
    before flushing delalloc and once again after waiting for writeback to
    complete, eliminating its increment when joining the log transaction
    may provide some performance gains in case we have multiple concurrent
    tasks doing fsyncs against different files in the same subvolume, as it
    reduces contention on the atomic (locking the cacheline and bouncing it).
    
    When testing fio with 32 jobs, on a 8 cores VM, doing fsyncs against
    different files of the same subvolume, on top of a zram device, I could
    consistently see gains (higher throughput) between 1% to 2%, which is a
    very low value and possibly hard to be observed with a real device (I
    couldn't observe consistent gains with my low/mid end NVMe device).
    So this change is mostly motivated to just simplify the logic, as updating
    the log batch counter is only relevant when an fsync starts and while not
    holding the root's log mutex.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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