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    nfs: Avoid flushing many pages with NFS_FILE_SYNC · a527c3ba
    Jan Kara authored
    When we are doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, nfs submits write requests with
    NFS_FILE_SYNC flag to the server (which then generally treats it as an
    O_SYNC write). This helps to reduce latency for single requests but when
    submitting more requests, additional fsyncs on the server side hurt
    latency. NFS generally avoids this additional overhead by not setting
    NFS_FILE_SYNC if desc->pg_moreio is set.
    
    However this logic doesn't always work. When we do random 4k writes to a huge
    file and then call fsync(2), each page writeback is going to be sent with
    NFS_FILE_SYNC because after preparing one page for writeback, we start writing
    back next, nfs_do_writepage() will call nfs_pageio_cond_complete() which finds
    the page is not contiguous with previously prepared IO and submits is *without*
    setting desc->pg_moreio.  Hence NFS_FILE_SYNC is used resulting in poor
    performance.
    
    Fix the problem by setting desc->pg_moreio in nfs_pageio_cond_complete() before
    submitting outstanding IO. This improves throughput of
    fsync-after-random-writes on my test SSD from ~70MB/s to ~250MB/s.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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