ext4: drop unnecessary journal handle in delalloc write
After we factor out the inline data write procedure from ext4_da_write_end(), we don't need to start journal handle for the cases of both buffer overwrite and append-write. If we need to update i_disksize, mark_inode_dirty() do start handle and update inode buffer. So we could just remove all the journal handle codes in the delalloc write procedure. After this patch, we could get a lot of performance improvement. Below is the Unixbench comparison data test on my machine with 'Intel Xeon Gold 5120' CPU and nvme SSD backend. Test cmd: ./Run -c 56 -i 3 fstime fsbuffer fsdisk Before this patch: System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 422965.0 1068.1 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 105077.0 634.9 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1429092.0 2464.0 ====== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 1186.6 After this patch: System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 732716.0 1850.3 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 184940.0 1117.5 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2427152.0 4184.7 ====== System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 2053.0 Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210716122024.1105856-5-yi.zhang@huawei.com
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