Btrfs: turbo charge fsync

At least for the vm workload.  Currently on fsync we will

1) Truncate all items in the log tree for the given inode if they exist

and

2) Copy all items for a given inode into the log

The problem with this is that for things like VMs you can have lots of
extents from the fragmented writing behavior, and worst yet you may have
only modified a few extents, not the entire thing.  This patch fixes this
problem by tracking which transid modified our extent, and then when we do
the tree logging we find all of the extents we've modified in our current
transaction, sort them and commit them.  We also only truncate up to the
xattrs of the inode and copy that stuff in normally, and then just drop any
extents in the range we have that exist in the log already.  Here are some
numbers of a 50 meg fio job that does random writes and fsync()s after every
write

		Original	Patched
SATA drive	82KB/s		140KB/s
Fusion drive	431KB/s		2532KB/s

So around 2-6 times faster depending on your hardware.  There are a few
corner cases, for example if you truncate at all we have to do it the old
way since there is no way to be sure what is in the log is ok.  This
probably could be done smarter, but if you write-fsync-truncate-write-fsync
you deserve what you get.  All this work is in RAM of course so if your
inode gets evicted from cache and you read it in and fsync it we'll do it
the slow way if we are still in the same transaction that we last modified
the inode in.

The biggest cool part of this is that it requires no changes to the recovery
code, so if you fsync with this patch and crash and load an old kernel, it
will run the recovery and be a-ok.  I have tested this pretty thoroughly
with an fsync tester and everything comes back fine, as well as xfstests.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 0d195b50766..4b81ea3fa1b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -3315,9 +3315,17 @@ int btrfs_run_defrag_inodes(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info);
 int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync);
 int btrfs_drop_extent_cache(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end,
 			    int skip_pinned);
+int btrfs_replace_extent_cache(struct inode *inode, struct extent_map *replace,
+			       u64 start, u64 end, int skip_pinned,
+			       int modified);
 extern const struct file_operations btrfs_file_operations;
-int btrfs_drop_extents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct inode *inode,
-		       u64 start, u64 end, u64 *hint_byte, int drop_cache);
+int __btrfs_drop_extents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+			 struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode,
+			 struct btrfs_path *path, u64 start, u64 end,
+			 u64 *hint_byte, int drop_cache);
+int btrfs_drop_extents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+		       struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode, u64 start,
+		       u64 end, u64 *hint_byte, int drop_cache);
 int btrfs_mark_extent_written(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			      struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end);
 int btrfs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);