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    afs: Do better accretion of small writes on newly created content · 5a813276
    David Howells authored
    Processes like ld that do lots of small writes that aren't necessarily
    contiguous result in a lot of small StoreData operations to the server, the
    idea being that if someone else changes the data on the server, we only
    write our changes over that and not the space between.  Further, we don't
    want to write back empty space if we can avoid it to make it easier for the
    server to do sparse files.
    
    However, making lots of tiny RPC ops is a lot less efficient for the server
    than one big one because each op requires allocation of resources and the
    taking of locks, so we want to compromise a bit.
    
    Reduce the load by the following:
    
     (1) If a file is just created locally or has just been truncated with
         O_TRUNC locally, allow subsequent writes to the file to be merged with
         intervening space if that space doesn't cross an entire intervening
         page.
    
     (2) Don't flush the file on ->flush() but rather on ->release() if the
         file was open for writing.
    
    Just linking vmlinux.o, without this patch, looking in /proc/fs/afs/stats:
    
    	file-wr : n=441 nb=513581204
    
    and after the patch:
    
    	file-wr : n=62 nb=513668555
    
    there were 379 fewer StoreData RPC operations at the expense of an extra
    87K being written.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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