Re: [PATCH v6] ext4: improve trim efficiency

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On Fri 01-09-23 17:28:20, Fengnan Chang wrote:
> In commit a015434480dc("ext4: send parallel discards on commit
> completions"), issue all discard commands in parallel make all
> bios could merged into one request, so lowlevel drive can issue
> multi segments in one time which is more efficiency, but commit
> 55cdd0af2bc5 ("ext4: get discard out of jbd2 commit kthread contex")
> seems broke this way, let's fix it.
> 
> In my test:
> 1. create 10 normal files, each file size is 10G.
> 2. deallocate file, punch a 16k holes every 32k.
> 3. trim all fs.
> the time of fstrim fs reduce from 6.7s to 1.3s.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This seems to have fallen through the cracks... I'm sorry for that.

>  static int ext4_try_to_trim_range(struct super_block *sb,
>  		struct ext4_buddy *e4b, ext4_grpblk_t start,
>  		ext4_grpblk_t max, ext4_grpblk_t minblocks)
>  __acquires(ext4_group_lock_ptr(sb, e4b->bd_group))
>  __releases(ext4_group_lock_ptr(sb, e4b->bd_group))
>  {
> -	ext4_grpblk_t next, count, free_count;
> +	ext4_grpblk_t next, count, free_count, bak;
>  	void *bitmap;
> +	struct ext4_free_data *entry = NULL, *fd, *nfd;
> +	struct list_head discard_data_list;
> +	struct bio *discard_bio = NULL;
> +	struct blk_plug plug;
> +	ext4_group_t group = e4b->bd_group;
> +	struct ext4_free_extent ex;
> +	bool noalloc = false;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&discard_data_list);
>  
>  	bitmap = e4b->bd_bitmap;
>  	start = max(e4b->bd_info->bb_first_free, start);
>  	count = 0;
>  	free_count = 0;
>  
> +	blk_start_plug(&plug);
>  	while (start <= max) {
>  		start = mb_find_next_zero_bit(bitmap, max + 1, start);
>  		if (start > max)
>  			break;
> +		bak = start;
>  		next = mb_find_next_bit(bitmap, max + 1, start);
> -
>  		if ((next - start) >= minblocks) {
> -			int ret = ext4_trim_extent(sb, start, next - start, e4b);
> +			/* when only one segment, there is no need to alloc entry */
> +			noalloc = (free_count == 0) && (next >= max);

Is the single extent case really worth the complications to save one
allocation? I don't think it is but maybe I'm missing something. Otherwise
the patch looks good to me!

								Honza

>  
> -			if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +			trace_ext4_trim_extent(sb, group, start, next - start);
> +			ex.fe_start = start;
> +			ex.fe_group = group;
> +			ex.fe_len = next - start;
> +			/*
> +			 * Mark blocks used, so no one can reuse them while
> +			 * being trimmed.
> +			 */
> +			mb_mark_used(e4b, &ex);
> +			ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
> +			ret = ext4_issue_discard(sb, group, start, next - start, &discard_bio);
> +			if (!noalloc) {
> +				entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep,
> +							GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
> +				entry->efd_start_cluster = start;
> +				entry->efd_count = next - start;
> +				list_add_tail(&entry->efd_list, &discard_data_list);
> +			}
> +			ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
> +			if (ret < 0)
>  				break;
>  			count += next - start;
>  		}
> @@ -6959,6 +6950,22 @@ __releases(ext4_group_lock_ptr(sb, e4b->bd_group))
>  			break;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (discard_bio) {
> +		ext4_unlock_group(sb, e4b->bd_group);
> +		submit_bio_wait(discard_bio);
> +		bio_put(discard_bio);
> +		ext4_lock_group(sb, e4b->bd_group);
> +	}
> +	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
> +
> +	if (noalloc && free_count)
> +		mb_free_blocks(NULL, e4b, bak, free_count);
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(fd, nfd, &discard_data_list, efd_list) {
> +		mb_free_blocks(NULL, e4b, fd->efd_start_cluster, fd->efd_count);
> +		kmem_cache_free(ext4_free_data_cachep, fd);
> +	}
> +
>  	return count;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR




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