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Btrfs: add readahead for send_write
authorLiu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 02:07:35 +0000 (10:07 +0800)
committerJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:17:19 +0000 (15:17 -0400)
commit2131bcd38b18167f499f190acf3409dfe5b3c280
tree505aa099a705f6da3dec233c05fe0f827ff8cf84
parenta4d96d6254590df5eb9a6ac32434ed9d33a46d19
Btrfs: add readahead for send_write

Btrfs send reads data from disk and then writes to a stream via pipe or
a file via flush.

Currently we're going to read each page a time, so every page results
in a disk read, which is not friendly to disks, esp. HDD.  Given that,
the performance can be gained by adding readahead for those pages.

Here is a quick test:
$ btrfs subvolume create send
$ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite 0 1G" send/foobar
$ btrfs subvolume snap -r send ro
$ time "btrfs send ro -f /dev/null"

           w/o             w
real    1m37.527s       0m9.097s
user    0m0.122s        0m0.086s
sys     0m53.191s       0m12.857s

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
fs/btrfs/send.c