Commits · 5039eddc19aee8c894191c24f2dde4e645ca1bbb · nexedi / linux

28 Jan, 2014 40 commits

Btrfs: make fsync latency less sucky · 5039eddc

Josef Bacik authored Jan 15, 2014

Looking into some performance related issues with large amounts of metadata
revealed that we can have some pretty huge swings in fsync() performance. If we
have a lot of delayed refs backed up (as you will tend to do with lots of
metadata) fsync() will wander off and try to run some of those delayed refs
which can result in reading from disk and such. Since the actual act of fsync()
doesn't create any delayed refs there is no need to make it throttle on delayed
ref stuff, that will be handled by other people. With this patch we get much
smoother fsync performance with large amounts of metadata. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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Btrfs: add support for inode properties · 63541927

Filipe David Borba Manana authored Jan 07, 2014

This change adds infrastructure to allow for generic properties for
inodes. Properties are name/value pairs that can be associated with
inodes for different purposes. They are stored as xattrs with the
prefix "btrfs."

Properties can be inherited - this means when a directory inode has
inheritable properties set, these are added to new inodes created
under that directory. Further, subvolumes can also have properties
associated with them, and they can be inherited from their parent
subvolume. Naturally, directory properties have priority over subvolume
properties (in practice a subvolume property is just a regular
property associated with the root inode, objectid 256, of the
subvolume's fs tree).

This change also adds one specific property implementation, named
"compression", whose values can be "lzo" or "zlib" and it's an
inheritable property.

The corresponding changes to btrfs-progs were also implemented.
A patch with xfstests for this feature will follow once there's
agreement on this change/feature.

Further, the script at the bottom of this commit message was used to
do some benchmarks to measure any performance penalties of this feature.

Basically the tests correspond to:

Test 1 - create a filesystem and mount it with compress-force=lzo,
then sequentially create N files of 64Kb each, measure how long it took
to create the files, unmount the filesystem, mount the filesystem and
perform an 'ls -lha' against the test directory holding the N files, and
report the time the command took.

Test 2 - create a filesystem and don't use any compression option when
mounting it - instead set the compression property of the subvolume's
root to 'lzo'. Then create N files of 64Kb, and report the time it took.
The unmount the filesystem, mount it again and perform an 'ls -lha' like
in the former test. This means every single file ends up with a property
(xattr) associated to it.

Test 3 - same as test 2, but uses 4 properties - 3 are duplicates of the
compression property, have no real effect other than adding more work
when inheriting properties and taking more btree leaf space.

Test 4 - same as test 3 but with 10 properties per file.

Results (in seconds, and averages of 5 runs each), for different N
numbers of files follow.

* Without properties (test 1)

                    file creation time        ls -lha time
10 000 files              3.49                   0.76
100 000 files            47.19                   8.37
1 000 000 files         518.51                 107.06

* With 1 property (compression property set to lzo - test 2)

                    file creation time        ls -lha time
10 000 files              3.63                    0.93
100 000 files            48.56                    9.74
1 000 000 files         537.72                  125.11

* With 4 properties (test 3)

                    file creation time        ls -lha time
10 000 files              3.94                    1.20
100 000 files            52.14                   11.48
1 000 000 files         572.70                  142.13

* With 10 properties (test 4)

                    file creation time        ls -lha time
10 000 files              4.61                    1.35
100 000 files            58.86                   13.83
1 000 000 files         656.01                  177.61

The increased latencies with properties are essencialy because of:

*) When creating an inode, we now synchronously write 1 more item
   (an xattr item) for each property inherited from the parent dir
   (or subvolume). This could be done in an asynchronous way such
   as we do for dir intex items (delayed-inode.c), which could help
   reduce the file creation latency;

*) With properties, we now have larger fs trees. For this particular
   test each xattr item uses 75 bytes of leaf space in the fs tree.
   This could be less by using a new item for xattr items, instead of
   the current btrfs_dir_item, since we could cut the 'location' and
   'type' fields (saving 18 bytes) and maybe 'transid' too (saving a
   total of 26 bytes per xattr item) from the btrfs_dir_item type.

Also tried batching the xattr insertions (ignoring proper hash
collision handling, since it didn't exist) when creating files that
inherit properties from their parent inode/subvolume, but the end
results were (surprisingly) essentially the same.

Test script:

$ cat test.pl
  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;
  use Time::HiRes qw(time);
  use constant NUM_FILES => 10_000;
  use constant FILE_SIZES => (64 * 1024);
  use constant DEV => '/dev/sdb4';
  use constant MNT_POINT => '/home/fdmanana/btrfs-tests/dev';
  use constant TEST_DIR => (MNT_POINT . '/testdir');

  system("mkfs.btrfs", "-l", "16384", "-f", DEV) == 0 or die "mkfs.btrfs failed!";

  # following line for testing without properties
  #system("mount", "-o", "compress-force=lzo", DEV, MNT_POINT) == 0 or die "mount failed!";

  # following 2 lines for testing with properties
  system("mount", DEV, MNT_POINT) == 0 or die "mount failed!";
  system("btrfs", "prop", "set", MNT_POINT, "compression", "lzo") == 0 or die "set prop failed!";

  system("mkdir", TEST_DIR) == 0 or die "mkdir failed!";
  my ($t1, $t2);

  $t1 = time();
  for (my $i = 1; $i <= NUM_FILES; $i++) {
      my $p = TEST_DIR . '/file_' . $i;
      open(my $f, '>', $p) or die "Error opening file!";
      $f->autoflush(1);
      for (my $j = 0; $j < FILE_SIZES; $j += 4096) {
          print $f ('A' x 4096) or die "Error writing to file!";
      }
      close($f);
  }
  $t2 = time();
  print "Time to create " . NUM_FILES . ": " . ($t2 - $t1) . " seconds.\n";
  system("umount", DEV) == 0 or die "umount failed!";
  system("mount", DEV, MNT_POINT) == 0 or die "mount failed!";

  $t1 = time();
  system("bash -c 'ls -lha " . TEST_DIR . " > /dev/null'") == 0 or die "ls failed!";
  $t2 = time();
  print "Time to ls -lha all files: " . ($t2 - $t1) . " seconds.\n";
  system("umount", DEV) == 0 or die "umount failed!";
Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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Btrfs: faster file extent item replace operations · 1acae57b

Filipe David Borba Manana authored Jan 07, 2014

When writing to a file we drop existing file extent items that cover the
write range and then add a new file extent item that represents that write
range.

Before this change we were doing a tree lookup to remove the file extent
items, and then after we did another tree lookup to insert the new file
extent item.
Most of the time all the file extent items we need to drop are located
within a single leaf - this is the leaf where our new file extent item ends
up at. Therefore, in this common case just combine these 2 operations into
a single one.

By avoiding the second btree navigation for insertion of the new file extent
item, we reduce btree node/leaf lock acquisitions/releases, btree block/leaf
COW operations, CPU time on btree node/leaf key binary searches, etc.

Besides for file writes, this is an operation that happens for file fsync's
as well. However log btrees are much less likely to big as big as regular
fs btrees, therefore the impact of this change is smaller.

The following benchmark was performed against an SSD drive and a
HDD drive, both for random and sequential writes:

  sysbench --test=fileio --file-num=4096 --file-total-size=8G \
     --file-test-mode=[rndwr|seqwr] --num-threads=512 \
     --file-block-size=8192 \ --max-requests=1000000 \
     --file-fsync-freq=0 --file-io-mode=sync [prepare|run]

All results below are averages of 10 runs of the respective test.

** SSD sequential writes

Before this change: 225.88 Mb/sec
After this change:  277.26 Mb/sec

** SSD random writes

Before this change: 49.91 Mb/sec
After this change:  56.39 Mb/sec

** HDD sequential writes

Before this change: 68.53 Mb/sec
After this change:  69.87 Mb/sec

** HDD random writes

Before this change: 13.04 Mb/sec
After this change:  14.39 Mb/sec
Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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Btrfs: handle EAGAIN case properly in btrfs_drop_snapshot() · 90515e7f

Wang Shilong authored Jan 07, 2014

We may return early in btrfs_drop_snapshot(), we shouldn't
call btrfs_std_err() for this case, fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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Btrfs: remove unnecessary transaction commit before send · 8e56338d

Wang Shilong authored Jan 07, 2014

We will finish orphan cleanups during snapshot, so we don't
have to commit transaction here.
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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Btrfs: fix protection between send and root deletion · 18f687d5

Wang Shilong authored Jan 07, 2014

We should gurantee that parent and clone roots can not be destroyed
during send, for this we have two ideas.

1.by holding @subvol_sem, this might be a nightmare, because it will
block all subvolumes deletion for a long time.

2.Miao pointed out we can reuse @send_in_progress, that mean we will
skip snapshot deletion if root sending is in progress.

Here we adopt the second approach since it won't block other subvolumes
deletion for a long time.

Besides in btrfs_clean_one_deleted_snapshot(), we only check first root
, if this root is involved in send, we return directly rather than
continue to check.There are several reasons about it:

1.this case happen seldomly.
2.after sending,cleaner thread can continue to drop that root.
3.make code simple

Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

18f687d5

Btrfs: fix wrong send_in_progress accounting · 896c14f9

Wang Shilong authored Jan 07, 2014

Steps to reproduce:
 # mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sda8
 # mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
 # btrfs sub snapshot -r /mnt /mnt/snap1
 # btrfs sub snapshot -r /mnt /mnt/snap2
 # btrfs send /mnt/snap1 -p /mnt/snap2 -f /mnt/1
 # dmesg

The problem is that we will sort clone roots(include @send_root), it
might push @send_root before thus @send_root's @send_in_progress will
be decreased twice.

Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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