On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 07:22:44PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > So, this patch open codes the kvmalloc() in the commit path to have > > the above described behaviour. The result is we more than halve the > > CPU time spend doing kvmalloc() in this path and transaction commits > > with 64kB objects in them more than doubles. i.e. we get ~5x > > reduction in CPU usage per costly-sized kvmalloc() invocation and > > the profile looks like this: > > > > - 37.60% xlog_cil_commit > > 16.01% memcpy_erms > > - 8.45% __kmalloc > > - 8.04% kmalloc_order_trace > > - 8.03% kmalloc_order > > - 7.93% alloc_pages > > - 7.90% __alloc_pages > > - 4.05% __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0 > > - 2.18% get_page_from_freelist > > - 1.77% wake_all_kswapds > > .... > > - __wake_up_common_lock > > - 0.94% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > > - 3.72% get_page_from_freelist > > - 2.43% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > > - 5.72% vmalloc > > - 5.72% __vmalloc_node_range > > - 4.81% __get_vm_area_node.constprop.0 > > - 3.26% alloc_vmap_area > > - 2.52% _raw_spin_lock > > - 1.46% _raw_spin_lock > > 0.56% __alloc_pages_bulk > > - 4.66% kvfree > > - 3.25% vfree > OK, i see. I tried to use the fs_mark in different configurations. For > example: > > <snip> > time fs_mark -D 10000 -S0 -n 100000 -s 0 -L 32 -d ./scratch/0 -d ./scratch/1 -d ./scratch/2 \ > -d ./scratch/3 -d ./scratch/4 -d ./scratch/5 -d ./scratch/6 -d ./scratch/7 -d ./scratch/8 \ > -d ./scratch/9 -d ./scratch/10 -d ./scratch/11 -d ./scratch/12 -d ./scratch/13 \ > -d ./scratch/14 -d ./scratch/15 -t 64 -F > <snip> > > But i did not manage to trigger xlog_cil_commit() to fallback to vmalloc > code. I think i should reduce an amount of memory on my kvm-pc and > repeat the tests! Simple way of doing is to use directory blocks that are larger than page size: mkfs.xfs -n size=64k .... We can hit that path in other ways - large attributes will hit it in the attr buffer allocation path, enabling the new attribute intent-based logging mode will hit it in the xlog_cil_commit path as well. IIRC, the above profile comes from the latter case, creating lots of zero length files with 64kB xattrs attached via fsmark. -Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
