[PATCH] ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0

[PATCH] ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0

[Eric Sandeen]

The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

Lightly tested: it mounts, accepts the mount option == 0,
shows "0" in /proc/mounts, and does basic IO & unmounts
without crashing.  ;)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 6f9e6fa..ab5a791 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1524,8 +1524,6 @@ static int handle_mount_opt(struct super_block *sb, char *opt, int token,
 			arg = JBD2_DEFAULT_MAX_COMMIT_AGE;
 		sbi->s_commit_interval = HZ * arg;
 	} else if (token == Opt_max_batch_time) {
-		if (arg == 0)
-			arg = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;
 		sbi->s_max_batch_time = arg;
 	} else if (token == Opt_min_batch_time) {
 		sbi->s_min_batch_time = arg;

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 38cfcf5..6f0f590 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1588,9 +1588,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 	 * to perform a synchronous write.  We do this to detect the
 	 * case where a single process is doing a stream of sync
 	 * writes.  No point in waiting for joiners in that case.
+	 *
+	 * Setting max_batch_time to 0 disables this completely.
 	 */
 	pid = current->pid;
-	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
+	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid &&
+	    journal->j_max_batch_time) {
 		u64 commit_time, trans_time;
 
 		journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;

Re: [PATCH] ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:10:45PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,
> 
> 	This optimization can be turned off entirely
> 	by setting max_batch_time to 0.
> 
> But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
> that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

				- Ted