Early on during a transaction commit we acquire the tree_log_mutex and
hold it until after we write the super blocks. But before writing the
extent buffers dirtied by the transaction and the super blocks we unblock
the transaction by setting its state to TRANS_STATE_UNBLOCKED and setting
fs_info->running_transaction to NULL.
This means that after that and before writing the super blocks, new
transactions can start. However if any transaction wants to log an inode,
it will block waiting for the transaction commit to write its dirty
extent buffers and the super blocks because the tree_log_mutex is only
released after those operations are complete, and starting a new log
transaction blocks on that mutex (at start_log_trans()).
Writing the dirty extent buffers and the super blocks can take a very
significant amount of time to complete, but we could allow the tasks
wanting to log an inode to proceed with most of their steps:
1) create the log trees
2) log metadata in the trees
3) write their dirty extent buffers
They only need to wait for the previous transaction commit to complete
(write its super blocks) before they attempt to write their super blocks,
otherwise we could end up with a corrupt filesystem after a crash.
So change start_log_trans() to use the root tree's log_mutex to serialize
for the creation of the log root tree instead of using the tree_log_mutex,
and make btrfs_sync_log() acquire the tree_log_mutex before writing the
super blocks. This allows for inode logging to wait much less time when
there is a previous transaction that is still committing, often not having
to wait at all, as by the time when we try to sync the log the previous
transaction already wrote its super blocks.
This patch belongs to a patch set that is comprised of the following
patches:
btrfs: fix race causing unnecessary inode logging during link and rename
btrfs: fix race that results in logging old extents during a fast fsync
btrfs: fix race that causes unnecessary logging of ancestor inodes
btrfs: fix race that makes inode logging fallback to transaction commit
btrfs: fix race leading to unnecessary transaction commit when logging inode
btrfs: do not block inode logging for so long during transaction commit
The following script that uses dbench was used to measure the impact of
the whole patchset:
$ cat test-dbench.sh
#!/bin/bash
DEV=/dev/nvme0n1
MNT=/mnt/btrfs
MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd"
echo "performance" | \
tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
mkfs.btrfs -f -m single -d single $DEV
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
dbench -D $MNT -t 300 64
umount $MNT
The test was run on a machine with 12 cores, 64G of ram, using a NVMe
device and a non-debug kernel configuration (Debian's default).
Before patch set:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 11277211 0.250 85.340
Close 8283172 0.002 6.479
Rename 477515 1.935 86.026
Unlink 2277936 0.770 87.071
Deltree 256 15.732 81.379
Mkdir 128 0.003 0.009
Qpathinfo 10221180 0.056 44.404
Qfileinfo 1789967 0.002 4.066
Qfsinfo 1874399 0.003 9.176
Sfileinfo 918589 0.061 10.247
Find 3951758 0.341 54.040
WriteX 5616547 0.047 85.079
ReadX 17676028 0.005 9.704
LockX 36704 0.003 1.800
UnlockX 36704 0.002 0.687
Flush 790541 14.115 676.236
Throughput 1179.19 MB/sec 64 clients 64 procs max_latency=676.240 ms
After patch set:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 12687926 0.171 86.526
Close 9320780 0.002 8.063
Rename 537253 1.444 78.576
Unlink 2561827 0.559 87.228
Deltree 374 11.499 73.549
Mkdir 187 0.003 0.005
Qpathinfo 11500300 0.061 36.801
Qfileinfo 2017118 0.002 7.189
Qfsinfo 2108641 0.003 4.825
Sfileinfo 1033574 0.008 8.065
Find 4446553 0.408 47.835
WriteX 6335667 0.045 84.388
ReadX 19887312 0.003 9.215
LockX 41312 0.003 1.394
UnlockX 41312 0.002 1.425
Flush 889233 13.014 623.259
Throughput 1339.32 MB/sec 64 clients 64 procs max_latency=623.265 ms
+12.7% throughput, -8.2% max latency
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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