Re: [Cluster-devel] gfs2 write bandwidth regression on 6.4-rc3 compareto 5.15.y

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Hi,

> Hi,
> 
> > Hi Wang Yugui,
> > 
> > On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 5:53?PM Wang Yugui <wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > gfs2 write bandwidth regression on 6.4-rc3 compare to 5.15.y.
> > > >
> > > > we added  linux-xfs@ and linux-fsdevel@ because some related problem[1]
> > > > and related patches[2].
> > > >
> > > > we compared 6.4-rc3(rather than 6.1.y) to 5.15.y because some related patches[2]
> > > > work only for 6.4 now.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20230508172406.1CF3.409509F4@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20230520163603.1794256-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > test case:
> > > > 1) PCIe3 SSD *4 with LVM
> > > > 2) gfs2 lock_nolock
> > > >     gfs2 attr(T) GFS2_AF_ORLOV
> > > >    # chattr +T /mnt/test
> > > > 3) fio
> > > > fio --name=global --rw=write -bs=1024Ki -size=32Gi -runtime=30 -iodepth 1
> > > > -ioengine sync -zero_buffers=1 -direct=0 -end_fsync=1 -numjobs=1 \
> > > >       -name write-bandwidth-1 -filename=/mnt/test/sub1/1.txt \
> > > >       -name write-bandwidth-2 -filename=/mnt/test/sub2/1.txt \
> > > >       -name write-bandwidth-3 -filename=/mnt/test/sub3/1.txt \
> > > >       -name write-bandwidth-4 -filename=/mnt/test/sub4/1.txt
> > > > 4) patches[2] are applied to 6.4-rc3.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 5.15.y result
> > > >       fio WRITE: bw=5139MiB/s (5389MB/s),
> > > > 6.4-rc3 result
> > > >       fio  WRITE: bw=2599MiB/s (2725MB/s)
> > >
> > > more test result:
> > >
> > > 5.17.0  WRITE: bw=4988MiB/s (5231MB/s)
> > > 5.18.0  WRITE: bw=5165MiB/s (5416MB/s)
> > > 5.19.0  WRITE: bw=5511MiB/s (5779MB/s)
> > > 6.0.5   WRITE: bw=3055MiB/s (3203MB/s), WRITE: bw=3225MiB/s (3382MB/s)
> > > 6.1.30  WRITE: bw=2579MiB/s (2705MB/s)
> > >
> > > so this regression  happen in some code introduced in 6.0,
> > > and maybe some minor regression in 6.1 too?
> > 
> > thanks for this bug report. Bob has noticed a similar looking
> > performance regression recently, and it turned out that commit
> > e1fa9ea85ce8 ("gfs2: Stop using glock holder auto-demotion for now")
> > inadvertently caused buffered writes to fall back to writing single
> > pages instead of multiple pages at once. That patch was added in
> > v5.18, so it doesn't perfectly align with the regression history
> > you're reporting, but maybe there's something else going on that we're
> > not aware of.
> > 
> > In any case, the regression introduced by commit e1fa9ea85ce8 should
> > be fixed by commit c8ed1b359312 ("gfs2: Fix duplicate
> > should_fault_in_pages() call"), which ended up in v6.5-rc1.
> > 
> > Could you please check where we end up with that fix?
> 
> I applied c8ed1b359312 on 6.1.36.
> # the build/test of 6.5-rc1 is yet not ready.
> 
> fio performance result:
>   WRITE: bw=2683MiB/s (2813MB/s)
> 
> but  the performance of fio 'Laying out IO file' is improved.
> Jobs: 4 (f=4): [F(4)][100.0%][w=5168MiB/s][w=5168 IOPS][eta 00m:00s]
> 
> so there seems 2 problems,  one is fixed by c8ed1b359312.
> but another is still left.


We build/test on 6.5-rc1 too.
fio  WRITE: bw=2643MiB/s (2771MB/s)

the performance of fio 'Laying out IO file'.
Jobs: 4 (f=4): [F(4)][100.0%][w=4884MiB/s][w=4884 IOPS][eta 00m:00s]

so the performance result on 6.5-rc1 is the same level as
6.1.36 with c8ed1b359312.

Best Regards
Wang Yugui (wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
2023/07/11





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