In nocow path, we check if the extent is snapshotted in btrfs_cross_ref_exist(). We can do the similar check earlier and avoid unnecessary search into extent tree.
A fio test on a Intel D-1531, 16GB RAM, SSD RAID-5 machine as follows: [global] group_reporting time_based thread=1 ioengine=libaio bs=4k iodepth=32 size=64G runtime=180 numjobs=8 rw=randwrite [file1] filename=/mnt/nocow/testfile IOPS result: unpatched patched 1 fio round: 46670 46958 snapshot 2 fio round: 51826 54498 3 fio round: 59767 61289 After snapshot, the first fio get about 5% performance gain. As we continually write to the same file, all writes will resume to nocow mode and eventually we have no performance gain. Signed-off-by: Ethan Lien <ethanl...@synology.com> --- V2: Add comment and performance test. fs/btrfs/inode.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index d241285a0d2a..177630337108 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -1373,6 +1373,13 @@ static noinline int run_delalloc_nocow(struct inode *inode, btrfs_file_extent_encryption(leaf, fi) || btrfs_file_extent_other_encoding(leaf, fi)) goto out_check; + /* + * We can skip the checking of generation of + * extent item in btrfs_cross_ref_exist(). + */ + if (btrfs_file_extent_generation(leaf, fi) <= + btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item)) + goto out_check; if (extent_type == BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_REG && !force) goto out_check; if (btrfs_extent_readonly(fs_info, disk_bytenr)) @@ -7368,6 +7375,14 @@ noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct inode *inode, u64 offset, u64 *len, btrfs_file_extent_other_encoding(leaf, fi)) goto out; + /* + * We can skip the checking of generation of + * extent item in btrfs_cross_ref_exist(). + */ + if (btrfs_file_extent_generation(leaf, fi) <= + btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item)) + goto out; + backref_offset = btrfs_file_extent_offset(leaf, fi); if (orig_start) { -- 2.17.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html