In commit b150a4f10d ("Btrfs: use a percpu to keep track of possibly
pinned bytes") we use total_bytes_pinned to track how many bytes we are
going to free in this transaction. When we are close to ENOSPC, we check it
and know if we can make the allocation by commit the current transaction.
For every data/metadata extent we are going to free, we add
total_bytes_pinned in btrfs_free_extent() and btrfs_free_tree_block(), and
release it in unpin_extent_range() when we finish the transaction. So this
is a variable we frequently update but rarely read - just the suitable
use of percpu_counter. But in previous commit we update total_bytes_pinned
by default 32 batch size, making every update essentially a spin lock
protected update. Since every spin lock/unlock operation involves syncing
a globally used variable and some kind of barrier in a SMP system, this is
more expensive than using total_bytes_pinned as a simple atomic64_t.
So fix this by using a customized batch size. Since we only read
total_bytes_pinned when we are close to ENOSPC and fail to allocate new
chunk, we can use a really large batch size and have nearly no penalty
in most cases.
[Test]
We tested the patch on a 4-cores x86 machine:
1. fallocate a 16GiB size test file
2. take snapshot (so all following writes will be COW)
3. run a 180 sec, 4 jobs, 4K random write fio on test file
We also added a temporary lockdep class on percpu_counter's spin lock
used by total_bytes_pinned to track it by lock_stat.
[Results]
unpatched:
lock_stat version 0.4
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class name con-bounces contentions
waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces
acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg
total_bytes_pinned_percpu: 82 82
0.21 0.61 29.46 0.36 298340
635973 0.09 11.01 173476.25 0.27
patched:
lock_stat version 0.4
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class name con-bounces contentions
waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces
acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg
total_bytes_pinned_percpu: 1 1
0.62 0.62 0.62 0.62 13601
31542 0.14 9.61 11016.90 0.35
[Analysis]
Since the spin lock only protects a single in-memory variable, the
contentions (number of lock acquisitions that had to wait) in both
unpatched and patched version are low. But when we see acquisitions and
acq-bounces, we get much lower counts in patched version. Here the most
important metric is acq-bounces. It means how many times the lock gets
transferred between different cpus, so the patch can really reduce
cacheline bouncing of spin lock (also the global counter of percpu_counter)
in a SMP system.
Fixes: b150a4f10d ("Btrfs: use a percpu to keep track of possibly pinned bytes")
Signed-off-by: Ethan Lien <ethanlien@synology.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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