On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:52:37AM +0800, robbieko wrote:
> From: Robbie Ko <robbi...@synology.com>
>
> This idea is from direct io. By this patch, we can make the buffered
> write parallel, and improve the performance and latency. But because we
> can not update isize without i_mutex, the unlocked buffered write just
> can be done in front of the EOF.
>
> We needn't worry about the race between buffered write and truncate,
> because the truncate need wait until all the buffered write end.
>
> And we also needn't worry about the race between dio write and punch hole,
> because we have extent lock to protect our operation.
>
> I ran fio to test the performance of this feature.
>
> == Hardware ==
> CPU: Intel® Xeon® D-1531
> SSD: Intel S3710 200G
> Volume : RAID 5 , SSD * 6
>
> == config file ==
> [global]
> group_reporting
> time_based
> thread=1
> norandommap
> ioengine=libaio
> bs=4k
> iodepth=32
> size=16G
> runtime=180
> numjobs=8
> rw=randwrite
>
> [file1]
> filename=/mnt/btrfs/nocow/testfile
>
> == result (iops) ==
> lock = 68470
> unlocked = 94242
>
> == result (clat) ==
> lock
> lat (usec): min=184, max=1209.9K, avg=3738.35, stdev=20869.49
> clat percentiles (usec):
> | 1.00th=[ 322], 5.00th=[ 330], 10.00th=[ 334], 20.00th=[ 346],
> | 30.00th=[ 370], 40.00th=[ 386], 50.00th=[ 406], 60.00th=[ 446],
> | 70.00th=[ 516], 80.00th=[ 612], 90.00th=[ 828], 95.00th=[10432],
> | 99.00th=[84480], 99.50th=[117248], 99.90th=[226304], 99.95th=[333824],
> | 99.99th=[692224]
>
> unlocked
> lat (usec): min=10, max=218208, avg=2691.44, stdev=5380.82
> clat percentiles (usec):
> | 1.00th=[ 302], 5.00th=[ 390], 10.00th=[ 442], 20.00th=[ 502],
> | 30.00th=[ 548], 40.00th=[ 596], 50.00th=[ 652], 60.00th=[ 724],
> | 70.00th=[ 916], 80.00th=[ 5024], 90.00th=[ 5664], 95.00th=[10048],
> | 99.00th=[29568], 99.50th=[39168], 99.90th=[54016], 99.95th=[59648],
> | 99.99th=[78336]
>
> Signed-off-by: Robbie Ko <robbi...@synology.com>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/file.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> index 41ab907..8eac540 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> @@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ static noinline ssize_t __btrfs_buffered_write(struct
> file *file,
> int ret = 0;
> bool only_release_metadata = false;
> bool force_page_uptodate = false;
> + bool relock = false;
>
> nrptrs = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(iov_iter_count(i), PAGE_SIZE),
> PAGE_SIZE / (sizeof(struct page *)));
> @@ -1609,6 +1610,18 @@ static noinline ssize_t __btrfs_buffered_write(struct
> file *file,
> if (!pages)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> + inode_dio_begin(inode);
> +
> + /*
> + * If the write is beyond the EOF, we need update
> + * the isize, but it is protected by i_mutex. So we can
> + * not unlock the i_mutex at this case.
> + */
> + if (pos + iov_iter_count(i) <= i_size_read(inode)) {
> + inode_unlock(inode);
And what protects two writes from interleaving their results now?
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