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Filipe Manana authored
When logging an inode we always log all its xattrs, so that we are able to figure out which ones should be deleted during log replay. However this is unnecessary when we are doing a fast fsync and no xattrs were added, changed or deleted since the last time we logged the inode in the current transaction. So skip the logging of xattrs when the inode was previously logged in the current transaction and no xattrs were added, changed or deleted. If any changes to xattrs happened, than the inode has BTRFS_INODE_COPY_EVERYTHING set in its runtime flags and the xattrs get logged. This saves time on scanning for xattrs, allocating memory, COWing log tree extent buffers and adding more lock contention on the extent buffers when there are multiple tasks logging in parallel. The use of xattrs is common when using ACLs, some applications, or when using security modules like SELinux where every inode gets a security xattr added to it. The following test script, using fio, was used on a box with 12 cores, 64G of RAM, a NVMe device and the default non-debug kernel config from Debian. It uses 8 concurrent jobs each writing in blocks of 64K to its own 4G file, each file with a single xattr of 50 bytes (about the same size for an ACL or SELinux xattr), doing random buffered writes with an fsync after each write. $ cat test.sh #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/nvme0n1 MNT=/mnt/test MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd" MKFS_OPTIONS="-d single -m single" NUM_JOBS=8 FILE_SIZE=4G cat <<EOF > /tmp/fio-job.ini [writers] rw=randwrite fsync=1 fallocate=none group_reporting=1 direct=0 bs=64K ioengine=sync size=$FILE_SIZE directory=$MNT numjobs=$NUM_JOBS EOF echo "performance" | \ tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV > /dev/null mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT echo "Creating files before fio runs, each with 1 xattr of 50 bytes" for ((i = 0; i < $NUM_JOBS; i++)); do path="$MNT/writers.$i.0" truncate -s $FILE_SIZE $path setfattr -n user.xa1 -v $(printf '%0.sX' $(seq 50)) $path done fio /tmp/fio-job.ini umount $MNT fio output before this change: WRITE: bw=120MiB/s (126MB/s), 120MiB/s-120MiB/s (126MB/s-126MB/s), io=32.0GiB (34.4GB), run=272145-272145msec fio output after this change: WRITE: bw=142MiB/s (149MB/s), 142MiB/s-142MiB/s (149MB/s-149MB/s), io=32.0GiB (34.4GB), run=230408-230408msec +16.8% throughput, -16.6% runtime Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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