Currently we do not do btree read ahead when doing an incremental send,
however we know that we will read and process any node or leaf in the
send root that has a generation greater than the generation of the parent
root. So triggering read ahead for such nodes and leafs is beneficial
for an incremental send.
This change does that, triggers read ahead of any node or leaf in the
send root that has a generation greater then the generation of the
parent root. As for the parent root, no readahead is triggered because
knowing in advance which nodes/leaves are going to be read is not so
linear and there's often a large time window between visiting nodes or
leaves of the parent root. So I opted to leave out the parent root,
and triggering read ahead for its nodes/leaves seemed to have not made
significant difference.
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
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
blockdev --flushbufs $DEV &> /dev/null
hdparm -F $DEV &> /dev/null
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
echo
echo "Testing incremental send..."
start=$(date +%s)
btrfs send -p $MNT/snap1 $MNT/snap2 > /dev/null
end=$(date +%s)
echo
echo "Incremental send took $((end - start)) seconds"
umount $MNT
Before this change, incremental send duration:
with $initial_file_count == 200000: 51 seconds
with $initial_file_count == 500000: 168 seconds
After this change, incremental send duration:
with $initial_file_count == 200000: 39 seconds (-26.7%)
with $initial_file_count == 500000: 125 seconds (-29.4%)
For $initial_file_count == 200000 there are 62600 nodes and leaves in the
btree of the first snapshot, and 77759 nodes and leaves in the btree of
the second snapshot. The root nodes were at level 2.
While for $initial_file_count == 500000 there are 152476 nodes and leaves
in the btree of the first snapshot, and 190511 nodes and leaves in the
btree of the second snapshot. The root nodes were at level 2 as well.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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