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Unverified Commit 974c5e61 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe Committed by Christian Brauner
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xfs: flag as supporting FOP_DONTCACHE



Read side was already fully supported, and with the write side
appropriately punted to the worker queue, all that's needed now is
setting FOP_DONTCACHE in the file_operations structure to enable full
support for read and write uncached IO.

This provides similar benefits to using RWF_DONTCACHE with reads. Testing
buffered writes on 32 files:

writing bs 65536, uncached 0
  1s: 196035MB/sec
  2s: 132308MB/sec
  3s: 132438MB/sec
  4s: 116528MB/sec
  5s: 103898MB/sec
  6s: 108893MB/sec
  7s: 99678MB/sec
  8s: 106545MB/sec
  9s: 106826MB/sec
 10s: 101544MB/sec
 11s: 111044MB/sec
 12s: 124257MB/sec
 13s: 116031MB/sec
 14s: 114540MB/sec
 15s: 115011MB/sec
 16s: 115260MB/sec
 17s: 116068MB/sec
 18s: 116096MB/sec

where it's quite obvious where the page cache filled, and performance
dropped from to about half of where it started, settling in at around
115GB/sec. Meanwhile, 32 kswapds were running full steam trying to
reclaim pages.

Running the same test with uncached buffered writes:

writing bs 65536, uncached 1
  1s: 198974MB/sec
  2s: 189618MB/sec
  3s: 193601MB/sec
  4s: 188582MB/sec
  5s: 193487MB/sec
  6s: 188341MB/sec
  7s: 194325MB/sec
  8s: 188114MB/sec
  9s: 192740MB/sec
 10s: 189206MB/sec
 11s: 193442MB/sec
 12s: 189659MB/sec
 13s: 191732MB/sec
 14s: 190701MB/sec
 15s: 191789MB/sec
 16s: 191259MB/sec
 17s: 190613MB/sec
 18s: 191951MB/sec

and the behavior is fully predictable, performing the same throughout
even after the page cache would otherwise have fully filled with dirty
data. It's also about 65% faster, and using half the CPU of the system
compared to the normal buffered write.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204184047.356762-3-axboe@kernel.dk


Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent b2cd5ae6
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