Hi Dave,
It has been tested on my 128 cores server and the performance is good.
the cpu usage of __percpu_counter_sum down from 7.74% to 0% andthe directory
creation and directory removal performance increase 10%+, file creation and
removal also increase about 5%, the result as follows:
Without the patch:
Command line used: ./mdtest -b 8 -z 5 -d /mnt/sdk -I 10
SUMMARY: (of 1 iterations)
Operation Max Min Mean Std Dev
--------- --- --- ---- -------
Directory creation: 68968.919 68968.919 68968.919 0.000
Directory stat : 310098.612 310098.612 310098.612 0.000
Directory removal : 65191.902 65191.902 65191.902 0.000
File creation : 26131.119 26131.119 26131.119 0.000
File stat : 317181.998 317181.998 317181.998 0.000
File read : 232764.829 232764.829 232764.829 0.000
File removal : 74074.210 74074.210 74074.210 0.000
Tree creation : 80398.466 80398.466 80398.466 0.000
Tree removal : 33374.964 33374.964 33374.964 0.000
With the patch:
Command line used: ./mdtest -b 8 -z 5 -d /mnt/sdk -I 10
SUMMARY: (of 1 iterations)
Operation Max Min Mean Std Dev
--------- --- --- ---- -------
Directory creation: 81117.635 81117.635 81117.635 0.000
Directory stat : 319936.438 319936.438 319936.438 0.000
Directory removal : 73507.535 73507.535 73507.535 0.000
File creation : 27834.931 27834.931 27834.931 0.000
File stat : 316691.113 316691.113 316691.113 0.000
File read : 231572.548 231572.548 231572.548 0.000
File removal : 79854.002 79854.002 79854.002 0.000
Tree creation : 93915.849 93915.849 93915.849 0.000
Tree removal : 38178.068 38178.068 38178.068 0.000
Thanks,
Shaokun
On 2019/11/21 8:44, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Shaokun Zhang reported that XFs was using substantial CPU time in
> percpu_count_sum() when running a single threaded benchmark on
> a high CPU count (128p) machine from xfs_mod_ifree(). The issue
> is that the filesystem is empty when the benchmark runs, so inode
> allocation is running with a very low inode free count.
>
> With the percpu counter batching, this means comparisons when the
> counter is less that 128 * 256 = 32768 use the slow path of adding
> up all the counters across the CPUs, and this is expensive on high
> CPU count machines.
>
> The summing in xfs_mod_ifree() is only used to fire an assert if an
> underrun occurs. The error is ignored by the higher level code.
> Hence this is really just debug code. Hence we don't need to run it
> on production kernels, nor do we need such debug checks to return
> error values just to trigger an assert.
>
> Further, the error handling in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() is
> largely incorrect - Rolling back the changes in the transaction if
> only one counter underruns makes all the other counters
> incorrect. We still allow the change to proceed and committing
> the transaction, except now we have multiple incorrect counters
> instead of a single underflow. Hence we should remove all this
> counter unwinding, too.
>
> Finally, xfs_mod_icount/xfs_mod_ifree are only called from
> xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(), so get rid of them and just
> directly call the percpu_counter_add/percpu_counter_compare
> functions. The compare functions are now run only on debug builds as
> they are internal to ASSERT() checks and so only compiled in when
> ASSERTs are active (CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=y or CONFIG_XFS_WARN=y).
>
> Difference in binary size for a production kernel:
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 9486 184 8 9678 25ce fs/xfs/xfs_trans.o
> 10858 89 12 10959 2acf fs/xfs/xfs_mount.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 8462 184 8 8654 21ce fs/xfs/xfs_trans.o
> 10510 89 12 10611 2973 fs/xfs/xfs_mount.o
>
> So not only does this cleanup chop out a lot of source code, it also
> results in a binary size reduction of ~1.3kB in a very frequently
> used fast path of the filesystem.
>
> Reported-by: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 33 ----------
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 2 -
> fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 153 +++++++++++----------------------------------
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> index fca65109cf24..205a83f33abc 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> @@ -1125,39 +1125,6 @@ xfs_log_sbcount(xfs_mount_t *mp)
> return xfs_sync_sb(mp, true);
> }
>
> -/*
> - * Deltas for the inode count are +/-64, hence we use a large batch size
> - * of 128 so we don't need to take the counter lock on every update.
> - */
> -#define XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH 128
> -int
> -xfs_mod_icount(
> - struct xfs_mount *mp,
> - int64_t delta)
> -{
> - percpu_counter_add_batch(&mp->m_icount, delta, XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH);
> - if (__percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_icount, 0, XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH) < 0) {
> - ASSERT(0);
> - percpu_counter_add(&mp->m_icount, -delta);
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> -int
> -xfs_mod_ifree(
> - struct xfs_mount *mp,
> - int64_t delta)
> -{
> - percpu_counter_add(&mp->m_ifree, delta);
> - if (percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_ifree, 0) < 0) {
> - ASSERT(0);
> - percpu_counter_add(&mp->m_ifree, -delta);
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> /*
> * Deltas for the block count can vary from 1 to very large, but lock contention
> * only occurs on frequent small block count updates such as in the delayed
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> index 88ab09ed29e7..0c9524660100 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
> @@ -389,8 +389,6 @@ extern int xfs_initialize_perag(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_agnumber_t agcount,
> xfs_agnumber_t *maxagi);
> extern void xfs_unmountfs(xfs_mount_t *);
>
> -extern int xfs_mod_icount(struct xfs_mount *mp, int64_t delta);
> -extern int xfs_mod_ifree(struct xfs_mount *mp, int64_t delta);
> extern int xfs_mod_fdblocks(struct xfs_mount *mp, int64_t delta,
> bool reserved);
> extern int xfs_mod_frextents(struct xfs_mount *mp, int64_t delta);
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> index 3b208f9a865c..93e9a5154cdb 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> @@ -527,57 +527,51 @@ xfs_trans_apply_sb_deltas(
> sizeof(sbp->sb_frextents) - 1);
> }
>
> -STATIC int
> +static void
> xfs_sb_mod8(
> uint8_t *field,
> int8_t delta)
> {
> int8_t counter = *field;
>
> + if (!delta)
> + return;
> counter += delta;
> - if (counter < 0) {
> - ASSERT(0);
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> + ASSERT(counter >= 0);
> *field = counter;
> - return 0;
> }
>
> -STATIC int
> +static void
> xfs_sb_mod32(
> uint32_t *field,
> int32_t delta)
> {
> int32_t counter = *field;
>
> + if (!delta)
> + return;
> counter += delta;
> - if (counter < 0) {
> - ASSERT(0);
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> + ASSERT(counter >= 0);
> *field = counter;
> - return 0;
> }
>
> -STATIC int
> +static void
> xfs_sb_mod64(
> uint64_t *field,
> int64_t delta)
> {
> int64_t counter = *field;
>
> + if (!delta)
> + return;
> counter += delta;
> - if (counter < 0) {
> - ASSERT(0);
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> + ASSERT(counter >= 0);
> *field = counter;
> - return 0;
> }
>
> /*
> - * xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() is called to release unused reservations
> - * and apply superblock counter changes to the in-core superblock. The
> + * xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() is called to release unused reservations and
> + * apply superblock counter changes to the in-core superblock. The
> * t_res_fdblocks_delta and t_res_frextents_delta fields are explicitly NOT
> * applied to the in-core superblock. The idea is that that has already been
> * done.
> @@ -586,7 +580,12 @@ xfs_sb_mod64(
> * used block counts are not updated in the on disk superblock. In this case,
> * XFS_TRANS_SB_DIRTY will not be set when the transaction is updated but we
> * still need to update the incore superblock with the changes.
> + *
> + * Deltas for the inode count are +/-64, hence we use a large batch size of 128
> + * so we don't need to take the counter lock on every update.
> */
> +#define XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH 128
> +
> void
> xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(
> struct xfs_trans *tp)
> @@ -622,20 +621,21 @@ xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(
> /* apply the per-cpu counters */
> if (blkdelta) {
> error = xfs_mod_fdblocks(mp, blkdelta, rsvd);
> - if (error)
> - goto out;
> + ASSERT(!error);
> }
>
> if (idelta) {
> - error = xfs_mod_icount(mp, idelta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_fdblocks;
> + percpu_counter_add_batch(&mp->m_icount, idelta,
> + XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH);
> + if (idelta < 0)
> + ASSERT(__percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_icount, 0,
> + XFS_ICOUNT_BATCH) >= 0);
> }
>
> if (ifreedelta) {
> - error = xfs_mod_ifree(mp, ifreedelta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_icount;
> + percpu_counter_add(&mp->m_ifree, ifreedelta);
> + if (ifreedelta < 0)
> + ASSERT(percpu_counter_compare(&mp->m_ifree, 0) >= 0);
> }
>
> if (rtxdelta == 0 && !(tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_SB_DIRTY))
> @@ -643,95 +643,16 @@ xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(
>
> /* apply remaining deltas */
> spin_lock(&mp->m_sb_lock);
> - if (rtxdelta) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_frextents, rtxdelta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_ifree;
> - }
> -
> - if (tp->t_dblocks_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks, tp->t_dblocks_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_frextents;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_agcount_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_agcount, tp->t_agcount_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_dblocks;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_imaxpct_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod8(&mp->m_sb.sb_imax_pct, tp->t_imaxpct_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_agcount;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_rextsize_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize,
> - tp->t_rextsize_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_imaxpct;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_rbmblocks_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rbmblocks,
> - tp->t_rbmblocks_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_rextsize;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_rblocks_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rblocks, tp->t_rblocks_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_rbmblocks;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_rextents_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextents,
> - tp->t_rextents_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_rblocks;
> - }
> - if (tp->t_rextslog_delta != 0) {
> - error = xfs_sb_mod8(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextslog,
> - tp->t_rextslog_delta);
> - if (error)
> - goto out_undo_rextents;
> - }
> - spin_unlock(&mp->m_sb_lock);
> - return;
> -
> -out_undo_rextents:
> - if (tp->t_rextents_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextents, -tp->t_rextents_delta);
> -out_undo_rblocks:
> - if (tp->t_rblocks_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rblocks, -tp->t_rblocks_delta);
> -out_undo_rbmblocks:
> - if (tp->t_rbmblocks_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rbmblocks, -tp->t_rbmblocks_delta);
> -out_undo_rextsize:
> - if (tp->t_rextsize_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize, -tp->t_rextsize_delta);
> -out_undo_imaxpct:
> - if (tp->t_rextsize_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod8(&mp->m_sb.sb_imax_pct, -tp->t_imaxpct_delta);
> -out_undo_agcount:
> - if (tp->t_agcount_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_agcount, -tp->t_agcount_delta);
> -out_undo_dblocks:
> - if (tp->t_dblocks_delta)
> - xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks, -tp->t_dblocks_delta);
> -out_undo_frextents:
> - if (rtxdelta)
> - xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_frextents, -rtxdelta);
> -out_undo_ifree:
> + xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_frextents, rtxdelta);
> + xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks, tp->t_dblocks_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_agcount, tp->t_agcount_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod8(&mp->m_sb.sb_imax_pct, tp->t_imaxpct_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize, tp->t_rextsize_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod32(&mp->m_sb.sb_rbmblocks, tp->t_rbmblocks_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rblocks, tp->t_rblocks_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod64(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextents, tp->t_rextents_delta);
> + xfs_sb_mod8(&mp->m_sb.sb_rextslog, tp->t_rextslog_delta);
> spin_unlock(&mp->m_sb_lock);
> - if (ifreedelta)
> - xfs_mod_ifree(mp, -ifreedelta);
> -out_undo_icount:
> - if (idelta)
> - xfs_mod_icount(mp, -idelta);
> -out_undo_fdblocks:
> - if (blkdelta)
> - xfs_mod_fdblocks(mp, -blkdelta, rsvd);
> -out:
> - ASSERT(error == 0);
> return;
> }
>
>
