btrfs: do not commit logs and transactions during link and rename operations
Since commit d4682ba0 ("Btrfs: sync log after logging new name") we started to commit logs, and fallback to transaction commits when we failed to log the new names or commit the logs, after link and rename operations when the target inodes (or their parents) were previously logged in the current transaction. This was to avoid losing directories despite an explicit fsync on them when they are ancestors of some inode that got a new named logged, due to a link or rename operation. However that adds the cost of starting IO and waiting for it to complete, which can cause higher latencies for applications. Instead of doing that, just make sure that when we log a new name for an inode we don't mark any of its ancestors as logged, so that if any one does an fsync against any of them, without doing any other change on them, the fsync commits the log. This way we only pay the cost of a log commit (or a transaction commit if something goes wrong or a new block group was created) if the application explicitly asks to fsync any of the parent directories. Using dbench, which mixes several filesystems operations including renames, revealed some significant latency gains. The following script that uses dbench was used to test this: #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/nvme0n1 MNT=/mnt/btrfs MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd -o space_cache=v2" MKFS_OPTIONS="-m single -d single" THREADS=16 echo "performance" | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT dbench -t 300 -D $MNT $THREADS umount $MNT The test was run on bare metal, no virtualization, on a box with 12 cores (Intel i7-8700), 64Gb of RAM and using a NVMe device, with a kernel configuration that is the default of typical distributions (debian in this case), without debug options enabled (kasan, kmemleak, slub debug, debug of page allocations, lock debugging, etc). Results before this patch: Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat ---------------------------------------- NTCreateX 10750455 0.011 155.088 Close 7896674 0.001 0.243 Rename 455222 2.158 1101.947 Unlink 2171189 0.067 121.638 Deltree 256 2.425 7.816 Mkdir 128 0.002 0.003 Qpathinfo 9744323 0.006 21.370 Qfileinfo 1707092 0.001 0.146 Qfsinfo 1786756 0.001 11.228 Sfileinfo 875612 0.003 21.263 Find 3767281 0.025 9.617 WriteX 5356924 0.011 211.390 ReadX 16852694 0.003 9.442 LockX 35008 0.002 0.119 UnlockX 35008 0.001 0.138 Flush 753458 4.252 1102.249 Throughput 1128.35 MB/sec 16 clients 16 procs max_latency=1102.255 ms Results after this patch: 16 clients, after Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat ---------------------------------------- NTCreateX 11471098 0.012 448.281 Close 8426396 0.001 0.925 Rename 485746 0.123 267.183 Unlink 2316477 0.080 63.433 Deltree 288 2.830 11.144 Mkdir 144 0.003 0.010 Qpathinfo 10397420 0.006 10.288 Qfileinfo 1822039 0.001 0.169 Qfsinfo 1906497 0.002 14.039 Sfileinfo 934433 0.004 2.438 Find 4019879 0.026 10.200 WriteX 5718932 0.011 200.985 ReadX 17981671 0.003 10.036 LockX 37352 0.002 0.076 UnlockX 37352 0.001 0.109 Flush 804018 5.015 778.033 Throughput 1201.98 MB/sec 16 clients 16 procs max_latency=778.036 ms (+6.5% throughput, -29.4% max latency, -75.8% rename latency) Test case generic/498 from fstests tests the scenario that the previously mentioned commit fixed. Signed-off-by:Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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