Since the stacking of regular file operations [1], the overlayfs edition of
write_iter() is called when writing regular files.
Since then, xattr lookup is needed on every write since file_remove_privs()
is called from ovl_write_iter(), which would become the performance
bottleneck when writing small chunks of data. In my test case,
file_remove_privs() would consume ~15% CPU when running fstime of unixbench
(the workload is repeadly writing 1 KB to the same file) [2].
Inherit the SB_NOSEC flag from upperdir. Since then xattr lookup would be
done only once on the first write. Unixbench fstime gets a ~20% performance
gain with this patch.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180606150905.GC9426@magnolia/T/
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-unionfs/msg07153.html
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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