Re: [PATCH] btrfs/179: optimize remove file selection

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 02:13:17PM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> Currently, we use "ls ... | sort -R | head -n1" to choose a removing
> victim. It sorts the files with "ls", sort it randomly and pick the first
> line, which wastes the "ls" sort.
> 
> Also, using "sort -R | head -n1" is inefficient. For example, in a
> directory with 1000000 files, it takes more than 15 seconds to pick a file.
> 
>   $ time bash -c "ls -U | sort -R | head -n 1 >/dev/null"
>   bash -c "ls -U | sort -R | head -n 1 >/dev/null"  15.38s user 0.14s system 99% cpu 15.536 total
> 
>   $ time bash -c "ls -U | shuf -n 1 >/dev/null"
>   bash -c "ls -U | shuf -n 1 >/dev/null"  0.30s user 0.12s system 138% cpu 0.306 total
> 
> So, just use "ls -U" and "shuf -n 1" to choose a victim.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tests/btrfs/179 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/btrfs/179 b/tests/btrfs/179
> index 2f17c9f9fb4a..0fbd875cf01b 100755
> --- a/tests/btrfs/179
> +++ b/tests/btrfs/179
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ fill_workload()
>  
>  		# Randomly remove some files for every 5 loop
>  		if [ $(( $i % 5 )) -eq 0 ]; then
> -			victim=$(ls "$SCRATCH_MNT/src" | sort -R | head -n1)
> +			victim=$(ls -U "$SCRATCH_MNT/src" | shuf -n 1)

Thanks for this improvement. This case has two lines have this similar logic,
Why not change them both?

And btrfs/192 has a similar line too:

$ grep -rsn -- "sort -R" tests
tests/btrfs/179:48:                     victim=$(ls "$SCRATCH_MNT/src" | sort -R | head -n1)
tests/btrfs/179:72:             victim=$(ls "$SCRATCH_MNT/snapshots" | sort -R | head -n1)
tests/btrfs/192:75:     echo "$basedir/$(ls $basedir | sort -R | tail -1)"
tests/btrfs/004:204:    for file in `find $dir -name f\* -size +0 | sort -R`; do

Do we need to change that too? And a common helper might help, if more cases
would like to have this helper?

Thanks,
Zorro

>  			rm "$SCRATCH_MNT/src/$victim"
>  		fi
>  		i=$((i + 1))
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 




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