From 0ae45f63d4ef8d8eeec49c7d8b44a1775fff13e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:37:00 -0500 Subject: vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode. This mode causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the in-memory version of the inode. The on-disk times will only get updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or (c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory. This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call. For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces writes to the inode table. The repeated 4k writes to a single block will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk drives. Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example). Google-Bug-Id: 18297052 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/libfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/libfs.c') diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index 005843ce5dbd..b2ffdb045be4 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ int __generic_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); - if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)) + if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)) goto out; if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151