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xfs: improve metadata I/O merging in the elevator

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Change all async metadata buffers to use [READ|WRITE]_META I/O types
so that the I/O doesn't get issued immediately. This allows merging of
adjacent metadata requests but still prioritises them over bulk data.
This shows a 10-15% improvement in sequential create speed of small
files.

Don't include the log buffers in this classification - leave them as
sync types so they are issued immediately.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Dave Chinner
2009-11-24 18:03:15 +00:00
committed by Alex Elder
parent b44b112627
commit 2ee1abad73
4 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ typedef enum {
XBF_FS_MANAGED = (1 << 8), /* filesystem controls freeing memory */
XBF_ORDERED = (1 << 11), /* use ordered writes */
XBF_READ_AHEAD = (1 << 12), /* asynchronous read-ahead */
XBF_LOG_BUFFER = (1 << 13), /* this is a buffer used for the log */
/* flags used only as arguments to access routines */
XBF_LOCK = (1 << 14), /* lock requested */