Now ext4_has_inline_data() is used in wide spread codepaths. So we need
to make it as a inline function to avoid burning some CPU cycles.
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before: 326110 19258 5528 350896 55ab0 fs/ext4/ext4.o
after: 326227 19258 5528 351013 55b25 fs/ext4/ext4.o
I use the following script to measure the CPU usage.
#!/bin/bash
shm_base='/dev/shm'
img=${shm_base}/ext4-img
mnt=/mnt/loop
e2fsprgs_base=$HOME/e2fsprogs
mkfs=${e2fsprgs_base}/misc/mke2fs
fsck=${e2fsprgs_base}/e2fsck/e2fsck
sudo umount $mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=4k count=3145728
${mkfs} -t ext4 -O inline_data -F $img
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop $img $mnt
# start testing...
testdir="${mnt}/testdir"
mkdir $testdir
cd $testdir
echo "start testing..."
for ((cnt=0;cnt<100;cnt++)); do
for ((i=0;i<5;i++)); do
for ((j=0;j<5;j++)); do
for ((k=0;k<5;k++)); do
for ((l=0;l<5;l++)); do
mkdir -p $i/$j/$k/$l
echo "$i-$j-$k-$l" > $i/$j/$k/$l/testfile
done
done
done
done
ls -R $testdir > /dev/null
rm -rf $testdir/*
done
The result of `perf top -G -U` is as below.
vanilla:
13.92% [ext4] [k] ext4_do_update_inode
9.36% [ext4] [k] __ext4_get_inode_loc
4.07% [ext4] [k] ftrace_define_fields_ext4_writepages
3.83% [ext4] [k] __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata
3.42% [ext4] [k] ext4_get_inode_flags
2.71% [ext4] [k] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty
2.46% [ext4] [k] ftrace_define_fields_ext4_direct_IO_enter
2.26% [ext4] [k] ext4_get_inode_loc
2.22% [ext4] [k] ext4_has_inline_data
[...]
After applied the patch, we don't see ext4_has_inline_data() because it
has been inlined and perf couldn't sample it. Although it doesn't mean
that the CPU cycles can be saved but at least the overhead of function
calls can be eliminated. So IMHO we'd better inline this function.
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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