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Ming Lei committed aeac589a74b
ext4: fix performance regression in ext4_writepages Commit 4e7ea81db5(ext4: restructure writeback path) introduces another performance regression on random write: - one more page may be added to ext4 extent in mpage_prepare_extent_to_map, and will be submitted for I/O so nr_to_write will become -1 before 'done' is set - the worse thing is that dirty pages may still be retrieved from page cache after nr_to_write becomes negative, so lots of small chunks can be submitted to block device when page writeback is catching up with write path, and performance is hurted. On one arm A15 board with sata 3.0 SSD(CPU: 1.5GHz dura core, RAM: 2GB, SATA controller: 3.0Gbps), this patch can improve below test's result from 157MB/sec to 174MB/sec(>10%): dd if=/dev/zero of=./z.img bs=8K count=512K The above test is actually prototype of block write in bonnie++ utility. This patch makes sure no more pages than nr_to_write can be added to extent for mapping, so that nr_to_write won't become negative. Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>