This patch allows the block allocation code to retain the buffers
for the resource groups so they don't need to be re-read from buffer
cache with every request. This is a performance improvement that's
especially noticeable when resource groups are very large. For
example, with 2GB resource groups and 4K blocks, there can be 33
blocks for every resource group. This patch allows those 33 buffers
to be kept around and not read in and thrown away with every
operation. The buffers are released when the resource group is
either synced or invalidated.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
bi was already declared and initialized globally in gfs2_rbm_find()
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
The function set_rgrp_preferences() does not handle the (rarely
returned) NULL value from gfs2_rgrpd_get_next() and this patch
fixes that.
The fs image in question is only 150MB in size which allows for
only 1 rgrp to be created. The in-memory rb tree has only 1 node
and when gfs2_rgrpd_get_next() is called on this sole rgrp, it
returns NULL. (Default behavior is to wrap around the rb tree and
return the first node to give the illusion of a circular linked
list. In the case of only 1 rgrp, we can't have
gfs2_rgrpd_get_next() return the same rgrp (first, last, next all
point to the same rgrp)... that would cause unintended consequences
and infinite loops.)
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This patch changes function gfs2_rgrp_congested so that it only factors
in non-zero values into its average round trip time. If the round-trip
time is zero for a particular cpu, that cpu has obviously never dealt
with bouncing the resource group in question, so factoring in a zero
value will only skew the numbers. It also fixes a compile error on
some arches related to division.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes function gfs2_rgrp_congested so that it uses an
average srttb (smoothed round trip time for blocking rgrp glocks)
rather than the CPU-specific value. If we use the CPU-specific value
it can incorrectly report no contention when there really is contention
due to the glock processing occurring on a different CPU.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
struct gfs2_alloc_parms is passed to gfs2_quota_check() and
gfs2_inplace_reserve() with ap->target containing the number of
blocks being requested for allocation in the current operation.
We add a new field to struct gfs2_alloc_parms called 'allowed'.
gfs2_quota_check() and gfs2_inplace_reserve() return the max
blocks allowed by quota and the max blocks allowed by the chosen
rgrp respectively in 'allowed'.
A new field 'min_target', when non-zero, tells gfs2_quota_check()
and gfs2_inplace_reserve() to not return -EDQUOT/-ENOSPC when
there are atleast 'min_target' blocks allowable/available. The
assumption is that the caller is ok with just 'min_target' blocks
and will likely proceed with allocating them.
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If we run out of blocks for a given multi-block allocation, we obviously
did not reserve enough. We should reserve more blocks for the next
reservation to reduce fragmentation. This patch increases the size hint
for reservations when they run out.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch tries to use the journal numbers to evenly distribute
which node prefers which resource group for block allocations. This
is to help performance.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch speeds up GFS2 unlink operations by using function
gfs2_rbm_incr rather than continuously calculating the rbm.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch checks if i_goal is either zero or if doesn't exist
within any rgrp (i.e gfs2_blk2rgrpd() returns NULL). If so, it
assigns the ip->i_no_addr block as the i_goal.
There are two scenarios where a bad i_goal can result in a
-EBADSLT error.
1. Attempting to allocate to an existing inode:
Control reaches gfs2_inplace_reserve() and ip->i_goal is bad.
We need to fix i_goal here.
2. A new inode is created in a directory whose i_goal is hosed:
In this case, the parent dir's i_goal is copied onto the new
inode. Since the new inode is not yet created, the ip->i_no_addr
field is invalid and so, the fix in gfs2_inplace_reserve() as per
1) won't work in this scenario. We need to catch and fix it sooner
in the parent dir itself (gfs2_create_inode()), before it is
copied to the new inode.
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
GFS2 has a transaction glock, which must be grabbed for every
transaction, whose purpose is to deal with freezing the filesystem.
Aside from this involving a large amount of locking, it is very easy to
make the current fsfreeze code hang on unfreezing.
This patch rewrites how gfs2 handles freezing the filesystem. The
transaction glock is removed. In it's place is a freeze glock, which is
cached (but not held) in a shared state by every node in the cluster
when the filesystem is mounted. This lock only needs to be grabbed on
freezing, and actions which need to be safe from freezing, like
recovery.
When a node wants to freeze the filesystem, it grabs this glock
exclusively. When the freeze glock state changes on the nodes (either
from shared to unlocked, or shared to exclusive), the filesystem does a
special log flush. gfs2_log_flush() does all the work for flushing out
the and shutting down the incore log, and then it tries to grab the
freeze glock in a shared state again. Since the filesystem is stuck in
gfs2_log_flush, no new transaction can start, and nothing can be written
to disk. Unfreezing the filesytem simply involes dropping the freeze
glock, allowing gfs2_log_flush() to grab and then release the shared
lock, so it is cached for next time.
However, in order for the unfreezing ioctl to occur, gfs2 needs to get a
shared lock on the filesystem root directory inode to check permissions.
If that glock has already been grabbed exclusively, fsfreeze will be
unable to get the shared lock and unfreeze the filesystem.
In order to allow the unfreeze, this patch makes gfs2 grab a shared lock
on the filesystem root directory during the freeze, and hold it until it
unfreezes the filesystem. The functions which need to grab a shared
lock in order to allow the unfreeze ioctl to be issued now use the lock
grabbed by the freeze code instead.
The freeze and unfreeze code take care to make sure that this shared
lock will not be dropped while another process is using it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes.
This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message.
Other miscellanea around these changes:
o Add missing newlines
o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo().
-Messages updated to fit in 80 columns.
-fs_macros converted as well.
-fs_printk removed.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Mark functions as static in gfs2/rgrp.c because they are not used
outside this file.
This eliminates the following warning in gfs2/rgrp.c:
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:1092:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘gfs2_rgrp_bh_get’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:1157:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘update_rgrp_lvb’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is another step towards improving the allocation of xattr
blocks at inode allocation time. Here we take advantage of
Christoph's recent work on ACLs to allocate a block for the
xattrs early if we know that we will be adding ACLs to the
inode later on. The advantage of that is that it is much
more likely that we'll get a contiguous run of two blocks
where the first is the inode and the second is the xattr block.
We still have to fall back to the original system in case we
don't get the requested two contiguous blocks, or in case the
ACLs are too large to fit into the block.
Future patches will move more of the ACL setting code further
up the gfs2_inode_create() function. Also, I'd like to be
able to do the same thing with the xattrs from LSMs in
due course, too. That way we should be able to slowly reduce
the number of independent transactions, at least in the
most common cases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is a small cleanup to function gfs2_rgrp_go_lock so that it
uses rgd instead of its more complicated twin.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Al Viro has tactfully pointed out that we are using the incorrect
error code in some cases. This patch fixes that, and also removes
the (unused) return value for glock dumping.
> * gfs2_iget() - ENOBUFS instead of ENOMEM. ENOBUFS is
> "No buffer space available (POSIX.1 (XSI STREAMS option))" and since
> we don't support STREAMS it's probably fair game, but... what the hell?
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Each rgrp header is represented as a single extent on disk, so we
can calculate the position within the address space, since we are
using address spaces mapped 1:1 to the disk. This means that it
is possible to use the range based versions of filemap_fdatawrite/wait
and for invalidating the page cache.
Our eventual intent is to then be able to merge the address spaces
used for rgrps into a single address space, rather than to have
one for each glock, saving memory and reducing complexity.
Since during umount, the rgrp structures are disposed of before
the glocks, we need to store the extent information in the glock
so that is is available for a final invalidation. This patch uses
a field which is otherwise unused in rgrp glocks to do that, so
that we do not have to expand the size of a glock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since gfs2_inplace_reserve() is always called with a valid
alloc parms structure, there is no need to test for this
within the function itself - and in any case, after we've
all ready dereferenced it anyway.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With the preceding patch, we started accepting block reservations
smaller than the ideal size, which requires a lot more parsing of the
bitmaps. To reduce the amount of bitmap searching, this patch
implements a scheme whereby each rgrp keeps track of the point
at this multi-block reservations will fail.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is just basically a resend of a patch I posted earlier.
It didn't change from its original, except in diff offsets, etc:
This patch fixes a bug in the GFS2 block allocation code. The problem
starts if a process already has a multi-block reservation, but for
some reason, another process disqualifies it from further allocations.
For example, the other process might set on the GFS2_RDF_ERROR bit.
The process holding the reservation jumps to label skip_rgrp, but
that label comes after the code that removes the reservation from the
tree. Therefore, the no longer usable reservation is not removed from
the rgrp's reservations tree; it's lost. Eventually, the lost reservation
causes the count of reserved blocks to get off, and eventually that
causes a BUG_ON(rs->rs_rbm.rgd->rd_reserved < rs->rs_free) to trigger.
This patch moves the call to after label skip_rgrp so that the
disqualified reservation is properly removed from the tree, thus keeping
the rgrp rd_reserved count sane.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is a second try at a patch I posted earlier, which also implements
suggestions Steve made:
Before this patch, GFS2 would keep searching through all the rgrps
until it found one that had a chunk of free blocks big enough to
satisfy the size hint, which is based on the file write size,
regardless of whether the chunk was big enough to perform the write.
However, when doing big writes there may not be a large enough
chunk of free blocks in any rgrp, due to file system fragmentation.
The largest chunk may be big enough to satisfy the write request,
but it may not meet the ideal reservation size from the "size hint".
The writes would slow to a crawl because every write would search
every rgrp, then finally give up and default to a single-block write.
In my case, performance would drop from 425MB/s to 18KB/s, or 24000
times slower.
This patch basically makes it so that if we can't find a contiguous
chunk of blocks big enough to satisfy the sizehint, we'll use the
largest chunk of blocks we found that will still contain the write.
It does so by keeping track of the largest run of blocks within the
rgrp.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When setting the starting point for block allocation, there were calls
to both gfs2_rbm_to_block() and gfs2_rbm_from_block() in the common case
of there being an active reservation. The gfs2_rbm_from_block() function
can be quite slow, and since the two conversions were effectively a
no-op, it makes sense to avoid them entirely in this case.
There is no functional change here, but the code should be a bit more
efficient after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds a structure to contain allocation parameters with
the intention of future expansion of this structure. The idea is
that we should be able to add more information about the allocation
in the future in order to allow the allocator to make a better job
of placing the requests on-disk.
There is no functional difference from applying this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The reservation for an inode should be cleared when it is truncated so
that we can start again at a different offset for future allocations.
We could try and do better than that, by resetting the search based on
where the truncation started from, but this is only a first step.
In addition, there are three callers of gfs2_rs_delete() but only one
of those should really be testing the value of i_writecount. While
we get away with that in the other cases currently, I think it would
be better if we made that test specific to the one case which
requires it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since the previous patch eliminated bi in favor of bii, this follow-on
patch needed to be adjusted accordingly. Here is the revised version.
This patch adds a new function, gfs2_rbm_incr, which increments
an rbm structure. This is more efficient than calling gfs2_rbm_to_block,
incrementing, then calling gfs2_rbm_from_block.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is a respin of the original patch. As Steve pointed out, the
introduction of field bii makes it easy to eliminate bi itself.
This revised patch does just that, replacing bi with bii.
This patch adds a new field to the rbm structure, called bii,
which is an index into the array of bitmaps for an rgrp.
This replaces *bi which was a pointer to the bitmap.
This is being done for further optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When we used try locks for rgrps on block allocations, it was important
to clear the flags field so that we used a blocking hold on the glock.
Now that we're not doing try locks, clearing flags is unnecessary, and
a waste of time. In fact, it's probably doing the wrong thing because
it clears the GL_SKIP bit that was set for the lvb tracking purposes.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a new field in the bitmap structure called
bi_blocks. Its purpose is to save us from constantly multiplying
bi_len by the constant GFS2_NBBY. It also paves the way for more
optimization in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In function gfs2_rbm_from_block, it starts by checking if the block
falls within the first bitmap. It does so by checking if the rbm's
offset is less than (rbm->bi->bi_start + rbm->bi->bi_len) * GFS2_NBBY.
However, the first bitmap will always have bi_start==0. Therefore
this is an unnecessary calculation in a function that gets called
billions of times. This patch removes the reference to bi_start.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch correctly distinguishes two boundary conditions:
1. When the given range is entire within the unaccounted space between
two rgrps, and
2. The range begins beyond the end of the filesystem
Also fix the unit of the returned value r.len (total trimming) to be in bytes
instead of the (incorrect) 512 byte blocks
With this patch, GFS2 passes multiple iterations of all the relevant xfstests
(251, 260, 288) with different fs block sizes.
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch calls get_write_access in a few functions. This
merely increases inode->i_writecount for the duration of the function.
That will ensure that any file closes won't delete the inode's
multi-block reservation while the function is running.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes the multi-block allocation code, such that
directory inodes only get a single block reserved in the bitmap.
That way, the bitmaps are more tightly packed together, and there
are fewer spans of free blocks for in-use block reservations.
This means it takes less time to find a free span of blocks in the
bitmap, which speeds things up. This increases the performance of
some workloads by almost 2X. In Nate's mockup.py script (which does
(1) create dir, (2) create dir in dir, (3) create file in that dir)
the test executes in 23 steps rather than 43 steps, a 47%
performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The functions that delete block reservations from the rgrp block
reservations rbtree no longer use the ip parameter. This patch
eliminates the parameter.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the inode creation code path in GFS2. After the
Orlov allocator was merged, a number of potential improvements are
now possible, and this is a first set of these.
The quota handling is now updated so that it matches the point in
the code where the allocation takes place. This means that the one
exception in gfs2_alloc_blocks relating to quota is now no longer
required, and we can use the generic code everywhere.
In addition the call to figure out whether we need to allocate any
extra blocks in order to add a directory entry is moved higher up
gfs2_create_inode. This means that if it returns an error, we
can deal with that at a stage where it is easier to handle that case.
The returned status cannot change during the function since we hold
an exclusive lock on the directory.
Two calls to gfs2_rindex_update have been changed to one, again at
the top of gfs2_create_inode to simplify error handling.
The time stamps are also now initialised earlier in the creation
process, this is gradually moving towards being able to remove the
call to gfs2_refresh_inode in gfs2_inode_create once we have all the
fields covered.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes GFS2's discard issuing code so that it calls
function sb_issue_discard rather than blkdev_issue_discard. The
code was calling blkdev_issue_discard and specifying the correct
sector offset and sector size, but blkdev_issue_discard expects
these values to be in terms of 512 byte sectors, even if the native
sector size for the device is different. Calling sb_issue_discard
with the BLOCK size instead ensures the correct block-to-512b-sector
translation. I verified that "minlen" is specified in blocks, so
comparing it to a number of blocks is correct.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The error code in gfs2_rs_alloc() is set to ENOMEM when error
but never be used, instead, gfs2_rs_alloc() always return 0.
Fix to return 'error'.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
locking violations, etc.
The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
"has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.
Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.
PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
kill f_vfsmnt
vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
...
There is little common content in gfs2_trans_add_bh() between the data
and meta classes by the time that the functions which it calls are
taken into account. The intent here is to split this into two
separate functions. Stage one is to introduce gfs2_trans_add_data()
and gfs2_trans_add_meta() and update the callers accordingly.
Later patches will then pull in the content of gfs2_trans_add_bh()
and its dependent functions in order to clean up the code in this
area.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In function rg_mblk_search, it's searching for multiple blocks in
a given state (e.g. "free"). If there's an active block reservation
its goal is the next free block of that. If the resource group
contains the dinode's goal block, that's used for the search. But
if neither is the case, it uses the rgrp's last allocated block.
That way, consecutive allocations appear after one another on media.
The problem comes in when you hit the end of the rgrp; it would never
start over and search from the beginning. This became a problem,
since if you deleted all the files and data from the rgrp, it would
never start over and find free blocks. So it had to keep searching
further out on the media to allocate blocks. This patch resets the
rd_last_alloc after it does an unsuccessful search at the end of
the rgrp.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds a return code check after calling function
gfs2_rbm_from_block while determining the free extent size.
That way, when the end of an rgrp is reached, it won't try
to process unaligned blocks after the end.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
QE aio tests uncovered a race condition in gfs2_rs_alloc where it's possible
to come out of the function with a valid ip->i_res allocation but it gets
freed before use resulting in a NULL ptr dereference.
This patch envelopes the initial short-circuit check for non-NULL ip->i_res
into the mutex lock. With this patch, I was able to successfully run the
reproducer test multiple times.
Resolves: rhbz#878476
Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The lksb struct already contains a pointer to the lvb,
so another directly from the glock struct is not needed.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
For filesystems with only a single resource group, we need to be careful
that the allocation loop will not land up with a NULL resource group. This
fixes a bug in a previous patch where the gfs2_rgrpd_get_next() function
was being used instead of gfs2_rgrpd_get_first()
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Just like ext3, this works on the root directory and any directory
with the +T flag set. Also, just like ext3, any subdirectory created
in one of the just mentioned cases will be allocated to a random
resource group (GFS2 equivalent of a block group).
If you are creating a set of directories, each of which will contain a
job running on a different node, then by setting +T on the parent
directory before creating the subdirectories, each will land up in a
different resource group, and thus resource group contention between
nodes will be kept to a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch uses information gathered by the recent glock statistics
patch in order to derrive a boolean verdict on the congestion
status of a resource group. This is then used when making decisions
on which resource group to choose during block allocation.
The aim is to avoid resource groups which are heavily contended
by other nodes, while still ensuring locality of access wherever
possible.
Once a reservation has been made in a particular resource group
we continue to use that resource group until a new reservation is
required. This should help to ensure that we do not change resource
groups too often.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch is a rewrite of function gfs2_rbm_from_block. Rather than
looping to find the right bitmap, the code now does a few simple
math calculations.
I compared the performance of both algorithms side by side and the new
algorithm is noticeably faster. Sample instrumentation output from a
"fast" machine:
5 million calls: millisec spent: Orig: 166 New: 113
5 million calls: millisec spent: Orig: 189 New: 114
In addition, I ran postmark (on a somewhat slowr CPU) before the after
the new algorithm was put in place and postmark showed a decent
improvement:
Before the new algorithm:
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Time:
645 seconds total
584 seconds of transactions (171 per second)
Files:
150087 created (232 per second)
Creation alone: 100000 files (2083 per second)
Mixed with transactions: 50087 files (85 per second)
49995 read (85 per second)
49991 appended (85 per second)
150087 deleted (232 per second)
Deletion alone: 100174 files (7705 per second)
Mixed with transactions: 49913 files (85 per second)
Data:
273.42 megabytes read (434.08 kilobytes per second)
852.13 megabytes written (1.32 megabytes per second)
With the new algorithm:
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Time:
599 seconds total
530 seconds of transactions (188 per second)
Files:
150087 created (250 per second)
Creation alone: 100000 files (1886 per second)
Mixed with transactions: 50087 files (94 per second)
49995 read (94 per second)
49991 appended (94 per second)
150087 deleted (250 per second)
Deletion alone: 100174 files (6260 per second)
Mixed with transactions: 49913 files (94 per second)
Data:
273.42 megabytes read (467.42 kilobytes per second)
852.13 megabytes written (1.42 megabytes per second)
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
