On 08/04/2016 11:01 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:28:44AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
On 08/04/2016 02:41 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
Simple test. 8GB pmem device on a 16p machine:
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/pmem1
# mount /dev/pmem1 /mnt/scratch
# dbench -t 60 -D /mnt/scratch 16
And heat your room with the warm air rising from your CPUs. Top
half of the btrfs profile looks like:
.....
Performance vs CPu usage is:
nprocs throughput cpu usage
1 440MB/s 50%
2 770MB/s 100%
4 880MB/s 250%
8 690MB/s 450%
16 280MB/s 950%
In comparision, at 8-16 threads ext4 is running at ~2600MB/s and
XFS is running at ~3800MB/s. Even if I throw 300-400 processes at
ext4 and XFS, they only drop to ~1500-2000MB/s as they hit internal
limits.
Yes, with dbench btrfs does much much better if you make a subvol
per dbench dir. The difference is pretty dramatic. I'm working on
it this month, but focusing more on database workloads right now.
You've been giving this answer to lock contention reports for the
past 6-7 years, Chris. I really don't care about getting big
benchmark numbers with contrived setups - the "use multiple
subvolumes" solution is simply not practical for users or their
workloads. The default config should behave sanely and not not
contribute to global warming like this.
The btree setup that makes lock contention here makes some other
benchmarks faster. Needing to create subvolumes in order to fix
performance problems on dbench is far from ideal, but in production here
the tradeoffs have been worth it.
Basically this one definitely comes up during dbench and fs_mark and
much less often elsewhere. For the workloads that hit this lock
contention, splitting things out into subvolumes hugely reduces metadata
fragmentation on reads. So it's not just CPU we're helping with
subvolumes but spindle time too.
It's true I haven't invested time into guessing when the admin wants to
split on a per-subvolume basis. Still, I do love the polar bears, so
I'll take another shot at the btree lock.
-chris
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