tree 167fb444fffebcfba80a15c789595a6c7d383b1e
parent 8eb3dd17eadd21a340cb658c7252d4ad5788baa4
author Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> 1680717089 +0100
committer David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> 1681753939 +0200

btrfs: avoid iterating over all indexes when logging directory

When logging a directory, after copying all directory index items from the
subvolume tree to the log tree, we iterate over the subvolume tree to find
all dir index items that are located in leaves COWed (or created) in the
current transaction. If we keep logging a directory several times during
the same transaction, we end up iterating over the same dir index items
everytime we log the directory, wasting time and adding extra lock
contention on the subvolume tree.

So just keep track of the last logged dir index offset in order to start
the search for that index (+1) the next time the directory is logged, as
dir index values (key offsets) come from a monotonically increasing
counter.

The following test measures the difference before and after this change:

  $ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  DEV=/dev/nullb0
  MNT=/mnt/nullb0

  umount $DEV &> /dev/null
  mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
  mount -o ssd $DEV $MNT

  # Time values in milliseconds.
  declare -a fsync_times
  # Total number of files added to the test directory.
  num_files=1000000
  # Fsync directory after every N files are added.
  fsync_period=100

  mkdir $MNT/testdir

  fsync_total_time=0
  for ((i = 1; i <= $num_files; i++)); do
        echo -n > $MNT/testdir/file_$i

        if [ $((i % fsync_period)) -eq 0 ]; then
                start=$(date +%s%N)
                xfs_io -c "fsync" $MNT/testdir
                end=$(date +%s%N)
                fsync_total_time=$((fsync_total_time + (end - start)))
                fsync_times[i]=$(( (end - start) / 1000000 ))
                echo -n -e "Progress $i / $num_files\r"
        fi
  done

  echo -e "\nHistogram of directory fsync duration in ms:\n"

  printf '%s\n' "${fsync_times[@]}" | \
     perl -MStatistics::Histogram -e '@d = <>; print get_histogram(\@d);'

  fsync_total_time=$((fsync_total_time / 1000000))
  echo -e "\nTotal time spent in fsync: $fsync_total_time ms\n"
  echo

  umount $MNT

The test was run on a non-debug kernel (Debian's default kernel config)
against a 15G null block device.

Result before this change:

   Histogram of directory fsync duration in ms:

   Count: 10000
   Range:  3.000 - 362.000; Mean: 34.556; Median: 31.000; Stddev: 25.751
   Percentiles:  90th: 71.000; 95th: 77.000; 99th: 81.000
      3.000 -    5.278:  1423 #################################
      5.278 -    8.854:  1173 ###########################
      8.854 -   14.467:   591 ##############
     14.467 -   23.277:  1025 #######################
     23.277 -   37.105:  1422 #################################
     37.105 -   58.809:  2036 ###############################################
     58.809 -   92.876:  2316 #####################################################
     92.876 -  146.346:     6 |
    146.346 -  230.271:     6 |
    230.271 -  362.000:     2 |

   Total time spent in fsync: 350527 ms

Result after this change:

   Histogram of directory fsync duration in ms:

   Count: 10000
   Range:  3.000 - 1088.000; Mean:  8.704; Median:  8.000; Stddev: 12.576
   Percentiles:  90th: 12.000; 95th: 14.000; 99th: 17.000
      3.000 -    6.007:  3222 #################################
      6.007 -   11.276:  5197 #####################################################
     11.276 -   20.506:  1551 ################
     20.506 -   36.674:    24 |
     36.674 -  201.552:     1 |
    201.552 -  353.841:     4 |
    353.841 - 1088.000:     1 |

   Total time spent in fsync: 92114 ms

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>