When logging a regular file in full sync mode, we are currently committing
its delayed inode item. This is to ensure that we never miss copying the
inode item, with its most up to date data, into the log tree.
However that is not necessary since commit e4545de5b0 ("Btrfs: fix fsync
data loss after append write"), because even if we don't find the leaf
with the inode item when looking for leaves that changed in the current
transaction, we end up logging the inode item later using the in-memory
content. In case we find the leaf containing the inode item, we already
end up using the in-memory inode for filling the inode item in the log
tree, and not the inode item that is in the fs/subvolume tree, as it
might be not up to date (copy_items() -> fill_inode_item()).
So don't commit the delayed inode item, which brings a couple of benefits:
1) Avoid writing the inode item to the fs/subvolume btree, saving time and
reducing lock contention on the btree;
2) In case no other item for the inode was changed, added or deleted in
the same leaf where the inode item is located, we ended up copying
all the items in that leaf to the log tree - it's harmless from a
functional point of view, but it wastes time and log tree space.
This patch is part of a patch set comprised of the following patches:
btrfs: check if a log tree exists at inode_logged()
btrfs: remove no longer needed checks for NULL log context
btrfs: do not log new dentries when logging that a new name exists
btrfs: always update the logged transaction when logging new names
btrfs: avoid expensive search when dropping inode items from log
btrfs: add helper to truncate inode items when logging inode
btrfs: avoid expensive search when truncating inode items from the log
btrfs: avoid search for logged i_size when logging inode if possible
btrfs: avoid attempt to drop extents when logging inode for the first time
btrfs: do not commit delayed inode when logging a file in full sync mode
This is patch 10/10 and the following test results compare a branch with
the whole patch set applied versus a branch without any of the patches
applied.
The following script was used to test dbench with 8 and 16 jobs on a
machine with 12 cores, 64G of RAM, a NVME device and using a non-debug
kernel config (Debian's default):
$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Use $0 NUM_JOBS"
exit 1
fi
NUM_JOBS=$1
DEV=/dev/nvme0n1
MNT=/mnt/nvme0n1
MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd"
MKFS_OPTIONS="-m single -d single"
echo "performance" | \
tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
dbench -D $MNT -t 120 $NUM_JOBS
umount $MNT
The results were the following:
8 jobs, before patchset:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 4113896 0.009 238.665
Close 3021699 0.001 0.590
Rename 174215 0.082 238.733
Unlink 830977 0.049 238.642
Deltree 96 2.232 8.022
Mkdir 48 0.003 0.005
Qpathinfo 3729013 0.005 2.672
Qfileinfo 653206 0.001 0.152
Qfsinfo 683866 0.002 0.526
Sfileinfo 335055 0.004 1.571
Find 1441800 0.016 4.288
WriteX 2049644 0.010 3.982
ReadX 6449786 0.003 0.969
LockX 13400 0.002 0.043
UnlockX 13400 0.001 0.075
Flush 288349 2.521 245.516
Throughput 1075.73 MB/sec 8 clients 8 procs max_latency=245.520 ms
8 jobs, after patchset:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 4154282 0.009 156.675
Close 3051450 0.001 0.843
Rename 175912 0.072 4.444
Unlink 839067 0.048 66.050
Deltree 96 2.131 5.979
Mkdir 48 0.002 0.004
Qpathinfo 3765575 0.005 3.079
Qfileinfo 659582 0.001 0.099
Qfsinfo 690474 0.002 0.155
Sfileinfo 338366 0.004 1.419
Find 1455816 0.016 3.423
WriteX 2069538 0.010 4.328
ReadX 6512429 0.003 0.840
LockX 13530 0.002 0.078
UnlockX 13530 0.001 0.051
Flush 291158 2.500 163.468
Throughput 1105.45 MB/sec 8 clients 8 procs max_latency=163.474 ms
+2.7% throughput, -40.1% max latency
16 jobs, before patchset:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 5457602 0.033 337.098
Close 4008979 0.002 2.018
Rename 231051 0.323 254.054
Unlink 1102209 0.202 337.243
Deltree 160 6.521 31.720
Mkdir 80 0.003 0.007
Qpathinfo 4946147 0.014 6.988
Qfileinfo 867440 0.001 1.642
Qfsinfo 907081 0.003 1.821
Sfileinfo 444433 0.005 2.053
Find 1912506 0.067 7.854
WriteX 2724852 0.018 7.428
ReadX 8553883 0.003 2.059
LockX 17770 0.003 0.350
UnlockX 17770 0.002 0.627
Flush 382533 2.810 353.691
Throughput 1413.09 MB/sec 16 clients 16 procs max_latency=353.696 ms
16 jobs, after patchset:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 5393156 0.034 303.181
Close 3961986 0.002 1.502
Rename 228359 0.320 253.379
Unlink 1088920 0.206 303.409
Deltree 160 6.419 30.088
Mkdir 80 0.003 0.004
Qpathinfo 4887967 0.015 7.722
Qfileinfo 857408 0.001 1.651
Qfsinfo 896343 0.002 2.147
Sfileinfo 439317 0.005 4.298
Find 1890018 0.073 8.347
WriteX 2693356 0.018 6.373
ReadX 8453485 0.003 3.836
LockX 17562 0.003 0.486
UnlockX 17562 0.002 0.635
Flush 378023 2.802 315.904
Throughput 1454.46 MB/sec 16 clients 16 procs max_latency=315.910 ms
+2.9% throughput, -11.3% max latency
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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