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Filipe Manana authored
Currently a full send operation uses the standard btree readahead when iterating over the subvolume/snapshot btree, which despite bringing good performance benefits, it could be improved in a few aspects for use cases such as full send operations, which are guaranteed to visit every node and leaf of a btree, in ascending and sequential order. The limitations of that standard btree readahead implementation are the following: 1) It only triggers readahead for leaves that are physically close to the leaf being read, within a 64K range; 2) It only triggers readahead for the next or previous leaves if the leaf being read is not currently in memory; 3) It never triggers readahead for nodes. So add a new readahead mode that addresses all these points and use it for full send operations. The following test script was used to measure the improvement on a box using an average, consumer grade, spinning disk and with 16GiB of RAM: $ cat test.sh #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/sdj MNT=/mnt/sdj MKFS_OPTIONS="--nodesize 16384" # default, just to be explicit MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o max_inline=2048" # default, just to be explicit mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV > /dev/null mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT # Create files with inline data to make it easier and faster to create # large btrees. add_files() { local total=$1 local start_offset=$2 local number_jobs=$3 local total_per_job=$(($total / $number_jobs)) echo "Creating $total new files using $number_jobs jobs" for ((n = 0; n < $number_jobs; n++)); do ( local start_num=$(($start_offset + $n * $total_per_job)) for ((i = 1; i <= $total_per_job; i++)); do local file_num=$((start_num + $i)) local file_path="$MNT/file_${file_num}" xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xab 0 2000" $file_path > /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Failed creating file $file_path" break fi done ) & worker_pids[$n]=$! done wait ${worker_pids[@]} sync echo echo "btree node/leaf count: $(btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree -t 5 $DEV | egrep '^(node|leaf) ' | wc -l)" } initial_file_count=500000 add_files $initial_file_count 0 4 echo echo "Creating first snapshot..." btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT $MNT/snap1 echo echo "Adding more files..." add_files $((initial_file_count / 4)) $initial_file_count 4 echo echo "Updating 1/50th of the initial files..." for ((i = 1; i < $initial_file_count; i += 50)); do xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xcd 0 20" $MNT/file_$i > /dev/null done echo echo "Creating second snapshot..." btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT $MNT/snap2 umount $MNT echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches blockdev --flushbufs $DEV &> /dev/null hdparm -F $DEV &> /dev/null mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT echo echo "Testing full send..." start=$(date +%s) btrfs send $MNT/snap1 > /dev/null end=$(date +%s) echo echo "Full send took $((end - start)) seconds" umount $MNT The durations of the full send operation in seconds were the following: Before this change: 217 seconds After this change: 205 seconds (-5.7%) Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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