From 30773840c19cea60dcef39545960d541b1ac1cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:27:38 -0500 Subject: ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobs Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index f75ab10..e3fcbea 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -283,6 +283,35 @@ delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time. nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation when data is copied from user to page cache. +max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for + additional filesystem operations to be batch + together with a synchronous write operation. + Since a synchronous write operation is going to + force a commit and then a wait for the I/O + complete, it doesn't cost much, and can be a + huge throughput win, we wait for a small amount + of time to see if any other transactions can + piggyback on the synchronous write. The + algorithm used is designed to automatically tune + for the speed of the disk, by measuring the + amount of time (on average) that it takes to + finish committing a transaction. Call this time + the "commit time". If the time that the + transactoin has been running is less than the + commit time, ext4 will try sleeping for the + commit time to see if other operations will join + the transaction. The commit time is capped by + the max_batch_time, which defaults to 15000us + (15ms). This optimization can be turned off + entirely by setting max_batch_time to 0. + +min_batch_time=usec This parameter sets the commit time (as + described above) to be at least min_batch_time. + It defaults to zero microseconds. Increasing + this parameter may improve the throughput of + multi-threaded, synchronous workloads on very + fast disks, at the cost of increasing latency. + Data Mode ========= There are 3 different data modes: -- cgit v1.1