When doing a NOWAIT direct IO write, if we can NOCOW then it means we can
proceed with the non-blocking, NOWAIT path. However reserving the metadata
space and qgroup meta space can often result in blocking - flushing
delalloc, wait for ordered extents to complete, trigger transaction
commits, etc, going against the semantics of a NOWAIT write.
So make the NOWAIT write path to try to reserve all the metadata it needs
without resulting in a blocking behaviour - if we get -ENOSPC or -EDQUOT
then return -EAGAIN to make the caller fallback to a blocking direct IO
write.
This is part of a patchset comprised of the following patches:
btrfs: avoid blocking on page locks with nowait dio on compressed range
btrfs: avoid blocking nowait dio when locking file range
btrfs: avoid double nocow check when doing nowait dio writes
btrfs: stop allocating a path when checking if cross reference exists
btrfs: free path at can_nocow_extent() before checking for checksum items
btrfs: release path earlier at can_nocow_extent()
btrfs: avoid blocking when allocating context for nowait dio read/write
btrfs: avoid blocking on space revervation when doing nowait dio writes
The following test was run before and after applying this patchset:
$ cat io-uring-nodatacow-test.sh
#!/bin/bash
DEV=/dev/sdc
MNT=/mnt/sdc
MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd -o nodatacow"
MKFS_OPTIONS="-R free-space-tree -O no-holes"
NUM_JOBS=4
FILE_SIZE=8G
RUN_TIME=300
cat <<EOF > /tmp/fio-job.ini
[io_uring_rw]
rw=randrw
fsync=0
fallocate=posix
group_reporting=1
direct=1
ioengine=io_uring
iodepth=64
bssplit=4k/20:8k/20:16k/20:32k/10:64k/10:128k/5:256k/5:512k/5:1m/5
filesize=$FILE_SIZE
runtime=$RUN_TIME
time_based
filename=foobar
directory=$MNT
numjobs=$NUM_JOBS
thread
EOF
echo performance | \
tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
umount $MNT &> /dev/null
mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV &> /dev/null
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
fio /tmp/fio-job.ini
umount $MNT
The test was run a 12 cores box with 64G of ram, using a non-debug kernel
config (Debian's default config) and a spinning disk.
Result before the patchset:
READ: bw=407MiB/s (427MB/s), 407MiB/s-407MiB/s (427MB/s-427MB/s), io=119GiB (128GB), run=300175-300175msec
WRITE: bw=407MiB/s (427MB/s), 407MiB/s-407MiB/s (427MB/s-427MB/s), io=119GiB (128GB), run=300175-300175msec
Result after the patchset:
READ: bw=436MiB/s (457MB/s), 436MiB/s-436MiB/s (457MB/s-457MB/s), io=128GiB (137GB), run=300044-300044msec
WRITE: bw=435MiB/s (456MB/s), 435MiB/s-435MiB/s (456MB/s-456MB/s), io=128GiB (137GB), run=300044-300044msec
That's about +7.2% throughput for reads and +6.9% for writes.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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