jbd2: avoid pointless scanning of checkpoint lists
Yuanhan has reported that when he is running fsync(2) heavy workload creating new files over ramdisk, significant amount of time is spent in __jbd2_journal_clean_checkpoint_list() trying to clean old transactions (but they cannot be cleaned up because flusher hasn't yet checkpointed those buffers). The workload can be generated by: fs_mark -d /fs/ram0/1 -D 2 -N 2560 -n 1000000 -L 1 -S 1 -s 4096 Reduce the amount of scanning by stopping to scan the transaction list once we find a transaction that cannot be checkpointed. Note that this way of cleaning is still enough to keep freeing space in the journal after fully checkpointed transactions. Reported-and-tested-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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