Commits
Chris Mason committed 590dca3a718
fs-writeback: unplug before cond_resched in writeback_sb_inodes
Commit 505a666ee3fc ("writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and
writeback_inodes_wb()") has us holding a plug during writeback_sb_inodes,
which increases the merge rate when relatively contiguous small files
are written by the filesystem. It helps both on flash and spindles.
For an fs_mark workload creating 4K files in parallel across 8 drives,
this commit improves performance ~9% more by unplugging before calling
cond_resched(). cond_resched() doesn't trigger an implicit unplug, so
explicitly getting the IO down to the device before scheduling reduces
latencies for anyone waiting on clean pages.
It also cuts down on how often we use kblockd to unplug, which means
less work bouncing from one workqueue to another.
Many more details about how we got here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/11/570
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>