From ace75066ced9b9abf432049699d0f9f911d8e496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Filipe Manana Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:56:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: improve btree readahead for full send operations 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 Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- fs/btrfs/send.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c index 26c2d50ea2db..a484fb72a01f 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c @@ -1279,12 +1279,13 @@ static void reada_for_search(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 search; u64 target; u64 nread = 0; + u64 nread_max; struct extent_buffer *eb; u32 nr; u32 blocksize; u32 nscan = 0; - if (level != 1) + if (level != 1 && path->reada != READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS) return; if (!path->nodes[level]) @@ -1292,6 +1293,20 @@ static void reada_for_search(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, node = path->nodes[level]; + /* + * Since the time between visiting leaves is much shorter than the time + * between visiting nodes, limit read ahead of nodes to 1, to avoid too + * much IO at once (possibly random). + */ + if (path->reada == READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS) { + if (level > 1) + nread_max = node->fs_info->nodesize; + else + nread_max = SZ_128K; + } else { + nread_max = SZ_64K; + } + search = btrfs_node_blockptr(node, slot); blocksize = fs_info->nodesize; eb = find_extent_buffer(fs_info, search); @@ -1310,7 +1325,8 @@ static void reada_for_search(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, if (nr == 0) break; nr--; - } else if (path->reada == READA_FORWARD) { + } else if (path->reada == READA_FORWARD || + path->reada == READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS) { nr++; if (nr >= nritems) break; @@ -1321,13 +1337,14 @@ static void reada_for_search(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, break; } search = btrfs_node_blockptr(node, nr); - if ((search <= target && target - search <= 65536) || + if (path->reada == READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS || + (search <= target && target - search <= 65536) || (search > target && search - target <= 65536)) { btrfs_readahead_node_child(node, nr); nread += blocksize; } nscan++; - if ((nread > 65536 || nscan > 32)) + if (nread > nread_max || nscan > 32) break; } } @@ -1436,6 +1453,9 @@ read_block_for_search(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_path *p, tmp = find_extent_buffer(fs_info, blocknr); if (tmp) { + if (p->reada == READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS) + reada_for_search(fs_info, p, level, slot, key->objectid); + /* first we do an atomic uptodate check */ if (btrfs_buffer_uptodate(tmp, gen, 1) > 0) { /* diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h index f2fd73e58ee6..2c858d5349c8 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h @@ -342,6 +342,27 @@ struct btrfs_node { struct btrfs_key_ptr ptrs[]; } __attribute__ ((__packed__)); +/* Read ahead values for struct btrfs_path.reada */ +enum { + READA_NONE, + READA_BACK, + READA_FORWARD, + /* + * Similar to READA_FORWARD but unlike it: + * + * 1) It will trigger readahead even for leaves that are not close to + * each other on disk; + * 2) It also triggers readahead for nodes; + * 3) During a search, even when a node or leaf is already in memory, it + * will still trigger readahead for other nodes and leaves that follow + * it. + * + * This is meant to be used only when we know we are iterating over the + * entire tree or a very large part of it. + */ + READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS, +}; + /* * btrfs_paths remember the path taken from the root down to the leaf. * level 0 is always the leaf, and nodes[1...BTRFS_MAX_LEVEL] will point @@ -350,7 +371,6 @@ struct btrfs_node { * The slots array records the index of the item or block pointer * used while walking the tree. */ -enum { READA_NONE, READA_BACK, READA_FORWARD }; struct btrfs_path { struct extent_buffer *nodes[BTRFS_MAX_LEVEL]; int slots[BTRFS_MAX_LEVEL]; diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c index 3cc306397261..55741adf9071 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/send.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c @@ -6650,7 +6650,7 @@ static int full_send_tree(struct send_ctx *sctx) path = alloc_path_for_send(); if (!path) return -ENOMEM; - path->reada = READA_FORWARD; + path->reada = READA_FORWARD_ALWAYS; key.objectid = BTRFS_FIRST_FREE_OBJECTID; key.type = BTRFS_INODE_ITEM_KEY; -- 2.25.1