ext4: avoid starting handle when dio writing an unwritten extent
Since we have deferred the split of the unwritten extent until after I/O
completion, it is not necessary to initiate the journal handle when
submitting the I/O.
This can improve the write performance of concurrent DIO for multiple
files. The fio tests below show a ~25% performance improvement when
wirting to unwritten files on my VM with a mem disk.
[unwritten]
direct=1
ioengine=psync
numjobs=16
rw=write # write/randwrite
bs=4K
iodepth=1
directory=/mnt
size=5G
runtime=30s
overwrite=0
norandommap=1
fallocate=native
ramp_time=5s
group_reporting=1
[w/o]
w: IOPS=62.5k, BW=244MiB/s
rw: IOPS=56.7k, BW=221MiB/s
[w]
w: IOPS=79.6k, BW=311MiB/s
rw: IOPS=70.2k, BW=274MiB/s
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105014522.1937690-4-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>