Re: [PATCH 11/11] xfs: reduce exclusive locking on unaligned dio

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:59:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Attempt shared locking for unaligned DIO, but only if the the
> underlying extent is already allocated and in written state. On
> failure, retry with the existing exclusive locking.
> 
> Test case is fio randrw of 512 byte IOs using AIO and an iodepth of
> 32 IOs.
> 
> Vanilla:
> 
>   READ: bw=4560KiB/s (4670kB/s), 4560KiB/s-4560KiB/s (4670kB/s-4670kB/s), io=134MiB (140MB), run=30001-30001msec
>   WRITE: bw=4567KiB/s (4676kB/s), 4567KiB/s-4567KiB/s (4676kB/s-4676kB/s), io=134MiB (140MB), run=30001-30001msec
> 
> Patched:
>    READ: bw=37.6MiB/s (39.4MB/s), 37.6MiB/s-37.6MiB/s (39.4MB/s-39.4MB/s), io=1127MiB (1182MB), run=30002-30002msec
>   WRITE: bw=37.6MiB/s (39.4MB/s), 37.6MiB/s-37.6MiB/s (39.4MB/s-39.4MB/s), io=1128MiB (1183MB), run=30002-30002msec
> 
> That's an improvement from ~18k IOPS to a ~150k IOPS, which is
> about the IOPS limit of the VM block device setup I'm testing on.
> 
> 4kB block IO comparison:
> 
>    READ: bw=296MiB/s (310MB/s), 296MiB/s-296MiB/s (310MB/s-310MB/s), io=8868MiB (9299MB), run=30002-30002msec
>   WRITE: bw=296MiB/s (310MB/s), 296MiB/s-296MiB/s (310MB/s-310MB/s), io=8878MiB (9309MB), run=30002-30002msec
> 
> Which is ~150k IOPS, same as what the test gets for sub-block
> AIO+DIO writes with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [hch: rebased, split unaligned from nowait]
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Looks good, minor nit:

> +	/*
> +	 * For overwrite only I/O, we cannot convert unwritten extents without
> +	 * requiring sub-block zeroing.  This can only be done under an
> +	 * exclusive IOLOCK, hence return -EAGAIN if this is not a written
> +	 * extent to tell the caller to try again.
> +	 */
> +	if (flags & IOMAP_OVERWRITE_ONLY) {
> +		error = -EAGAIN;
> +		if (imap.br_state != XFS_EXT_NORM &&
> +		    ((offset & mp->m_blockmask) ||
> +		     ((offset + length) & mp->m_blockmask)))
> +			goto out_unlock;

Why not use the ((offset | length) & mp->blockmask) form of
alignment checking here?

Other than that,

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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