Even though the length of the critical section when adding / removing
orphaned inodes was significantly reduced by using orphan file, the
contention of lock protecting orphan file still appears high in profiles
for truncate / unlink intensive workloads with high number of threads.
This patch makes handling of orphan file completely lockless. Also to
reduce conflicts between CPUs different CPUs start searching for empty
slot in orphan file in different blocks.
Performance comparison of locked orphan file handling, lockless orphan
file handling, and completely disabled orphan inode handling
from 80 CPU Xeon Server with 526 GB of RAM, filesystem located on
SAS SSD disk, average of 5 runs:
stress-orphan (microbenchmark truncating files byte-by-byte from N
processes in parallel)
Threads Time Time Time
Orphan locked Orphan lockless No orphan
1 0.945600 0.939400 0.891200
2 1.331800 1.246600 1.174400
4 1.995000 1.780600 1.713200
8 6.424200 4.900000 4.106000
16 14.937600 8.516400 8.138000
32 33.038200 24.565600 24.002200
64 60.823600 39.844600 38.440200
128 122.941400 70.950400 69.315000
So we can see that with lockless orphan file handling, addition /
deletion of orphaned inodes got almost completely out of picture even
for a microbenchmark stressing it.
For reaim creat_clo workload on ramdisk there are also noticeable gains
(average of 5 runs):
Clients Vanilla (ops/s) Patched (ops/s)
creat_clo-1 14705.88 ( 0.00%) 14354.07 * -2.39%*
creat_clo-3 27108.43 ( 0.00%) 28301.89 ( 4.40%)
creat_clo-5 37406.48 ( 0.00%) 45180.73 * 20.78%*
creat_clo-7 41338.58 ( 0.00%) 54687.50 * 32.29%*
creat_clo-9 45226.13 ( 0.00%) 62937.07 * 39.16%*
creat_clo-11 44000.00 ( 0.00%) 65088.76 * 47.93%*
creat_clo-13 36516.85 ( 0.00%) 68661.97 * 88.03%*
creat_clo-15 30864.20 ( 0.00%) 69551.78 * 125.35%*
creat_clo-17 27478.45 ( 0.00%) 67729.08 * 146.48%*
creat_clo-19 25000.00 ( 0.00%) 61621.62 * 146.49%*
creat_clo-21 18772.35 ( 0.00%) 63829.79 * 240.02%*
creat_clo-23 16698.94 ( 0.00%) 61938.96 * 270.92%*
creat_clo-25 14973.05 ( 0.00%) 56947.61 * 280.33%*
creat_clo-27 16436.69 ( 0.00%) 65008.03 * 295.51%*
creat_clo-29 13949.01 ( 0.00%) 69047.62 * 395.00%*
creat_clo-31 14283.52 ( 0.00%) 67982.45 * 375.95%*
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816095713.16537-5-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Ext4 orphan inode handling is a bottleneck for workloads which heavily
truncate / unlink small files since it contends on the global
s_orphan_mutex lock (and generally it's difficult to improve scalability
of the ondisk linked list of orphaned inodes).
This patch implements new way of handling orphan inodes. Instead of
linking orphaned inode into a linked list, we store it's inode number in
a new special file which we call "orphan file". Only if there's no more
space in the orphan file (too many inodes are currently orphaned) we
fall back to using old style linked list. Currently we protect
operations in the orphan file with a spinlock for simplicity but even in
this setting we can substantially reduce the length of the critical
section and thus speedup some workloads. In the next patch we improve
this by making orphan handling lockless.
Note that the change is backwards compatible when the filesystem is
clean - the existence of the orphan file is a compat feature, we set
another ro-compat feature indicating orphan file needs scanning for
orphaned inodes when mounting filesystem read-write. This ro-compat
feature gets cleared on unmount / remount read-only.
Some performance data from 80 CPU Xeon Server with 512 GB of RAM,
filesystem located on SSD, average of 5 runs:
stress-orphan (microbenchmark truncating files byte-by-byte from N
processes in parallel)
Threads Time Time
Vanilla Patched
1 1.057200 0.945600
2 1.680400 1.331800
4 2.547000 1.995000
8 7.049400 6.424200
16 14.827800 14.937600
32 40.948200 33.038200
64 87.787400 60.823600
128 206.504000 122.941400
So we can see significant wins all over the board.
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816095713.16537-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Move functions for handling orphan inodes into a new file
fs/ext4/orphan.c to have them in one place and somewhat reduce size of
other files. No code changes.
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816095713.16537-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
