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Often an fsync needs to fallback to a transaction commit for several reasons (to ensure consistency after a power failure, a new block group was allocated or a temporary error such as ENOMEM or ENOSPC happened). In that case the log is marked as needing a full commit and any concurrent tasks attempting to log inodes or commit the log will also fallback to the transaction commit. When this happens they all wait for the task that first started the transaction commit to finish the transaction commit - however they wait until the full transaction commit happens, which is not needed, as they only need to wait for the superblocks to be persisted and not for unpinning all the extents pinned during the transaction's lifetime, which even for short lived transactions can be a few thousand and take some significant amount of time to complete - for dbench workloads I have observed up to 4~5 milliseconds of time spent unpinning extents in the worst cases, and the number of pinned extents was between 2 to 3 thousand. So allow fsync tasks to skip waiting for the unpinning of extents when they call btrfs_commit_transaction() and they were not the task that started the transaction commit (that one has to do it, the alternative would be to offload the transaction commit to another task so that it could avoid waiting for the extent unpinning or offload the extent unpinning to another task). This patch is part of a patchset comprised of the following patches: btrfs: remove unnecessary directory inode item update when deleting dir entry btrfs: stop setting nbytes when filling inode item for logging btrfs: avoid logging new ancestor inodes when logging new inode btrfs: skip logging directories already logged when logging all parents btrfs: skip logging inodes already logged when logging new entries btrfs: remove unnecessary check_parent_dirs_for_sync() btrfs: make concurrent fsyncs wait less when waiting for a transaction commit After applying the entire patchset, dbench shows improvements in respect to throughput and latency. The script used to measure it is the following: $ cat dbench-test.sh #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/sdk MNT=/mnt/sdk MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd" MKFS_OPTIONS="-m single -d single" echo "performance" | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor umount $DEV &> /dev/null mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT dbench -D $MNT -t 300 64 umount $MNT The test was run on a physical machine with 12 cores (Intel corei7), 64G of ram, using a NVMe device and a non-debug kernel configuration (Debian's default configuration). Before applying patchset, 32 clients: Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat ---------------------------------------- NTCreateX |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.