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Kazuo Ito authored
As the block and SCSI layouts can only read/write fixed-length blocks, we must perform read-modify-write when data to be written is not aligned to a block boundary or smaller than the block size. (612aa983 pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin) The current code tries to see if we have to do read-modify-write on block-oriented pNFS layouts by just checking !PageUptodate(page), but the same condition also applies for overwriting of any uncached potions of existing files, making such operations excessively slow even it is block-aligned. The change does not affect the optimization for modify-write-read cases (38c73044 NFS: read-modify-write page updating), because partial update of !PageUptodate() pages can only happen in layouts that can do arbitrary length read/write and never in block-based ones. Testing results: We ran fio on one of the pNFS clients running 4.20 kernel (vanilla and patched) in this configuration to read/write/overwrite files on the storage array, exported as pnfs share by the server. pNFS clients ---1G Ethernet--- pNFS server (HP DL360 G8) (HP DL360 G8) | | | | +------8G Fiber Channel--------+ | Storage Array (HP P6350) Throughput of overwrite (both buffered and O_SYNC) is noticeably improved. Ops. |block size| Throughput | | (KiB) | (MiB/s) | | | 4.20 | patched| ---------+----------+----------------+ buffered | 4| 21.3 | 232 | overwrite| 32| 22.2 | 256 | | 512| 22.4 | 260 | ---------+----------+----------------+ O_SYNC | 4| 3.84| 4.77| overwrite| 32| 12.2 | 32.0 | | 512| 18.5 | 152 | ---------+----------+----------------+ Read and write (buffered and O_SYNC) by the same client remain unchanged by the patch either negatively or positively, as they should do. Ops. |block size| Throughput | | (KiB) | (MiB/s) | | | 4.20 | patched| ---------+----------+----------------+ read | 4| 548 | 550 | | 32| 547 | 551 | | 512| 548 | 551 | ---------+----------+----------------+ buffered | 4| 237 | 244 | write | 32| 261 | 268 | | 512| 265 | 272 | ---------+----------+----------------+ O_SYNC | 4| 0.46| 0.46| write | 32| 3.60| 3.57| | 512| 105 | 106 | ---------+----------+----------------+ Signed-off-by: Kazuo Ito <ito_kazuo_g3@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Hiroyuki Watanabe <watanabe.hiroyuki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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