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Filipe Manana authored
When we truncate a file to the same size and that size is not aligned with the sector size, we end up triggering writeback (and wait for it to complete) of the last page. This is unncessary as we can not have delayed allocation beyond the inode's i_size and the goal of truncating a file to its own size is to discard prealloc extents (allocated via the fallocate(2) system call). Besides the unnecessary IO start and wait, it also breaks the oppurtunity for larger contiguous extents on disk, as before the last dirty page there might be other dirty pages. This scenario is probably not very common in general, however it is common for btrfs receive implementations because currently the send stream always issues a truncate operation for each processed inode as the last operation for that inode (this truncate operation is not always needed and the send implementation will be addressed to avoid them). So improve this by not starting and waiting for writeback of the inode's last page when we are truncating to exactly the same size. The following script was used to quickly measure the time a receive operation takes: $ cat test_send.sh #!/bin/bash SRC_DEV=/dev/sdc DST_DEV=/dev/sdd SRC_MNT=/mnt/sdc DST_MNT=/mnt/sdd mkfs.btrfs -f $SRC_DEV >/dev/null mkfs.btrfs -f $DST_DEV >/dev/null mount $SRC_DEV $SRC_MNT mount $DST_DEV $DST_MNT echo "Creating source filesystem" for ((t = 0; t < 10; t++)); do ( for ((i = 1; i <= 20000; i++)); do xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xab 0 5000" \ $SRC_MNT/file_$i > /dev/null done ) & worker_pids[$t]=$! done wait ${worker_pids[@]} echo "Creating and sending snapshot" btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $SRC_MNT $SRC_MNT/snap1 >/dev/null /usr/bin/time -f "send took %e seconds" \ btrfs send -f $SRC_MNT/send_file $SRC_MNT/snap1 /usr/bin/time -f "receive took %e seconds" \ btrfs receive -f $SRC_MNT/send_file $DST_MNT umount $SRC_MNT umount $DST_MNT The results for 5 runs were the following: * Without this change average receive time was 26.49 seconds standard deviation of 2.53 seconds * With this change average receive time was 12.51 seconds standard deviation of 0.32 seconds Reported-by: Robbie Ko <robbieko@synology.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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