f2fs: reduce competition among node page writes
We do not need to block on ->node_write among different node page writers e.g.
fsync/flush, unless we have a node page writer from write_checkpoint.
So it's better use rw_semaphore instead of mutex type for ->node_write to
promote performance.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index 26b94bb..73690ce 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -762,10 +762,10 @@
* until finishing nat/sit flush.
*/
retry_flush_nodes:
- mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
+ down_write(&sbi->node_write);
if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES)) {
- mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+ up_write(&sbi->node_write);
sync_node_pages(sbi, 0, &wbc);
goto retry_flush_nodes;
}
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@
static void unblock_operations(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
{
- mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
+ up_write(&sbi->node_write);
f2fs_unlock_all(sbi);
}